Barrett, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Robb Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47633. It stands on Cox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Poseyville quadrangle.

Barrett within Posey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1903 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1903 USGS Patoka quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1938 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Poseyville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

14,233 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Robb Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Robb Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Barrett in 2004, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning	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
29 February 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Posey County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

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

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Compton Pit & Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Diamond Dredge and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Posey 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
Stewartsville	2.2 miles	21
Griffin	2.4 miles	21
New Baltimore	3.0 miles	21
Rapture	3.6 miles	21
Poseyville	5.0 miles	21
New Harmony	6.0 miles	21
Wadesville	8.1 miles	19
Cynthiana	8.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 430532. 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.