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Barnhart Town, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47885. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Goshen quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Barnhart Town within Vigo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

31 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Barnhart Town between 2001 and 2005, burning about 273 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony9
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 July 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 June 2004Smokingunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Barnhart Town: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Terre Haute City Eng.StoneProducer
Harlan FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Terre Haute North DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitlock Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Vigo 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Marion Heights0.8 miles17
Whitcomb Heights1.5 miles17
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods1.7 miles17
Harrison1.8 miles17
Ferguson Hill1.9 miles17
Twelve Points2.2 miles17
Parkview2.5 miles17
Duane Yards2.6 miles17

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 Barnhart TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4861829The 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 430517. 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.