Bogle Corner, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47438. The Survey maps it on the Jasonville quadrangle.

Bogle Corner within Clay 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.

1940 USGS Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
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 Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Bogle Corner between 2002 and 2008, burning about 83 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3

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
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 July 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 June 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bogle Corner in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bogle Corner	$20,000	Trees and power lines were downed and a camper was turned over due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report was relayed by dispatch.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Buchanan Corner	1.4 miles	17
Howesville	2.0 miles	17
Coalmont	2.7 miles	17
Brunswick	3.7 miles	18
New Brunswick	3.9 miles	18
Middlebury	6.9 miles	16
Danville	7.8 miles	16
Clay City	7.8 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 Bogle Corner	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4937656	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 431296. 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.