BlockAyrshire, Indiana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Patoka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47598. It stands on Stone Coe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Velpen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ayrshire between 2001 and 2016, burning about 1,091 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.5 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | MAXEY! |
| 7 April 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | SNAKEY POINT |
| 15 April 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 716 acres | Indiana Division of Forestry | COAL CAR |
| 13 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 365 acres | Indiana Division of Forestry | WINSLOW SPOILS |
| 19 February 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | BOYD TRAIL FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ayrshire in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Ayrshire | $10,000 | Record flooding occurred on the Patoka River. There was extensive sandbagging in Winslow. |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muren | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Winslow | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Arthur | 2.2 miles | 19 | |
| Marysville | 2.4 miles | 18 | |
| Littles | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Campbelltown | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Augusta | 3.9 miles | 19 | |
| Oakland City Junction | 4.2 miles | 18 |
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 Ayrshire | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4831672 | 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 430370. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.