Alfont, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Green Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46040. The Survey maps it on the Ingalls quadrangle. It stands 850 feet above sea level.

Alfont within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1952 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

447 words on this township

History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874 names this settlement in its chapter on Green Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Among the first citizens of Green were Judge Samuel Holliday"^ Thomas and James Scott, Henry Hiday, Samuel Gibson, Abraham Cotrell, William McCarty, James and Isaac Jones, Saul Shaul, and Elias Ellis. Following soon after we find Wesley AVhite, Washington Pettigrew, William A. Williamson, John Shaul, \Yilliam Alfont, O. B. Shaul and Samuel Nicholson.

Passage source: History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874.

Among the prominent men who have filled county offices from Green, are Saul Shaul and Andrew Shanklin. It was also the home of Judge Holliday, of whom a personal sketch will be found in another place. Alfont is in the southeastern part, on the Bellefontaine Railroad, of which a fall account will be given elsewhere.

Passage source: History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Green Township.

Fires near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Alfont in 2004, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 April 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 March 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ingalls	0.6 miles	10
Sunview	1.4 miles	10
Idlewold	4.1 miles	10
Pendleton	4.8 miles	9
Hardscrabble	5.0 miles	13
Huntsville	6.0 miles	14
Lapel	8.3 miles	13
Fishersburg	8.6 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Alfont	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4722130	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 430069. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.