Bryantsburg, Indiana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47250. The Survey maps it on the Rexville quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.

Bryantsburg within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Rexville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Bryantsburg between 2001 and 2020, burning about 356 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
16 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	CEMETERY ROAD FIRE
15 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.5 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	CAMERA FIRE
12 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	PGL FIRE
8 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	BACON RIDGE
12 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	EAST PERIMETER FIRE IN-BOR SUMMER 2019 SUMMER
20 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	SUMMER PGM FIRE
5 April 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	PGM NIGHT OPS FIRE
5 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	2100 CENTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryantsburg in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
July 2013	Flash Flood	Bryantsburg	$5,000	Heavy slow-moving thunderstorms developed north of Madison, Indiana during the late evening. These storms were separate from those that earlier brought flooding to locations southwest of Madison. An estimated 2 to 3 inches fell during a 3 hour window during the mid to late evening hours. Law enforcement reported a car stalled on flooded State Highway 421 just south of the Jefferson-Ripley County Line.
April 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Bryantsburg	-	An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado with winds up to 100 mph. This fast-moving tornado began along U.S. 421 one half mile south of the Jefferson-Ripley County line, then raced eastward, doing minor damage to a home, sucking the door out of a large garage and taking off much of the roof of a large tobacco barn. The most extensive damage was done near the end of the tornado's path where it destroyed a mobile home, took the roof off a cinder block outbuilding, and did extensive damage to the roofs of several large barns.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Belleview	2.1 miles	10
Canaan	4.4 miles	9
China	4.6 miles	9
Barbersville	5.1 miles	8
Calloway Station (historical)	5.6 miles	10
Middlefork	5.6 miles	10
Wirt Station	6.2 miles	10
Midway	6.7 miles	10

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 Bryantsburg	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4980635	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 449625. 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.