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Bryantsville, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Spice Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47446. The Survey maps it on the Bedford West quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Bryantsville within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Bryantsville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 July 2012Natural1.0 acresHoosier National ForestOLD HOME PLACE
25 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHoosier National ForestGEORGIA TOWER
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresHoosier National ForestFIBERTECH
22 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National Forest60 TRASH
21 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestOLD 60
18 March 2019Debris and open burning4.8 acresHoosier National ForestBONE
18 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoosier National ForestCOZY FIRE
16 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestGEORGIA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Bryantsville: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Zinc, Sulfur. 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
Mitchell Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z81Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
North Gardner MineAluminumPast Producer
North Gardner MineAluminumPast Producer
Pennsylvania Salt Company MineAluminumPast Producer
Pennsylvania Salt Company MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bryantsville in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2018: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Tornado (F1)Bryantsville2 hurt, $500,000A small tornado briefly touched down heavily damaging four homes and causing minor damage to 11 homes. Also numerous trees and power lines were knocked down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBryantsville$10,000There were two locations over west-central parts of Lawrence County with trees down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Hartleyville2.8 miles21
Redding3.7 miles21
Georgia4.0 miles14
Tarry Park4.1 miles21
Moorestown4.1 miles14
Coxton4.2 miles21
Yockey4.4 miles17
Williams4.6 miles22

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 BryantsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4980639The 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 450725. 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.

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.