Artist Point, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47137. It stands on Low Gap Branch. The Survey maps it on the Leavenworth quadrangle.

Artist Point within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1946 USGS Leavenworth quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Leavenworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Leavenworth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Leavenworth quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1998 USGS Leavenworth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Artist Point between 1999 and 2015, burning about 41 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	3
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Hoosier National Forest	HIGH WALL
11 June 2015	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BIRDS CEMETERY
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	BEECHWOOD
18 March 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 March 2001	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 February 2004	Debris and open burning	6.6 acres	Hoosier National Forest	COMMANDO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Artist Point: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unnamed Fluorite Occurrences	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Cape Sandy Quarry #1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cape Sandy Quarry #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Riverside Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Crawford 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
Cape Sandy	0.7 miles	21
Fredonia	1.4 miles	17
Schooner Point Landing	1.6 miles	21
Leavenworth	3.0 miles	21
Alton	3.6 miles	16
Jericho	3.9 miles	17
Deuchars	4.2 miles	17
Beechwood	4.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 430287. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.