Byron, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Howard Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47859. The Survey maps it on the Alamo quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Byron within Parke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1949 USGS Alamo quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Alamo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Byron between 2002 and 2005, burning about 9 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 October 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 January 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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
Banner Mills	2.0 miles	14
Bethany	4.1 miles	14
Lusks Mills (historical)	4.1 miles	15
Guion	4.2 miles	13
Grange Corner	4.9 miles	15
Milligan	5.4 miles	13
Marshall	5.8 miles	14
Parkeville	6.1 miles	13

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 Byron	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5004277	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 431926. 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.