Baldridge, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Curry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47850. The Survey maps it on the Hymera quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Baldridge within Sullivan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1943 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Baldridge between 2001 and 2005, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 were 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	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Natural	1
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
24 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 June 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 June 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 May 2004	Natural	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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
Farmersburg	1.8 miles	18
Standard	2.0 miles	18
Curryville	2.7 miles	18
Wilfred	2.7 miles	16
Shelburn	3.3 miles	18
East Shelburn	3.4 miles	18
Jackson Hill	3.8 miles	16
Hymera	4.5 miles	16

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 Baldridge	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4850479	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 430450. 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.