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Buenavista, Indiana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Indian Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47403. The Survey maps it on the Stanford quadrangle.

Buenavista within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Indian Creek township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From 1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 - Indian Creek Township

Army Correspondence

May, the members of Capt. Kelley's company, Fourteenth Regiment, sent home to their friends $2.000. As this time also the body of Capt. Kelley was brought home and buried. He had been mortally wounded at the hotly contested battle of Winchester, and after lingering several weeks had died at Cincinnati, where he had been brought by his loving and faithful wife for medical treatment.

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In the county-history sources

40,478 words on this township

1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Indian Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Indian Creek Township - 40,478 words.

Fires near this place

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Buenavista between 1993 and 2008, burning about 29 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 1993Arson/incendiarism20 acresHoosier National Forestnot named
29 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 April 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Buenavista: 11 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Beck QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Shawnee QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Victor Oolitic Stone CompanyLimestone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Kirksville2.4 miles27
Stanford4.0 miles22
Victor4.4 miles27
Elwren5.3 miles22
Harrodsburg6.0 miles27
Garden Acres7.5 miles27
Kirby7.5 miles25
Clear Creek8.1 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452229. 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.