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Cape Sandy, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47137. The Survey maps it on the Leavenworth quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Cape Sandy within Crawford 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cape Sandy between 1999 and 2015, burning about 41 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHoosier National ForestHIGH WALL
11 June 2015Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresHoosier National ForestBIRDS CEMETERY
1 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestBEECHWOOD
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Debris and open burning6.6 acresHoosier National ForestCOMMANDO FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cape Sandy: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Unnamed Fluorite OccurrencesFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Cape Sandy Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cape Sandy Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Riverside MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cape Sandy in 1 storm report in 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCape Sandy-A large tree was uprooted and fell on a power line.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Artist Point0.7 miles21
Schooner Point Landing1.6 miles21
Fredonia2.0 miles17
Alton3.2 miles16
Leavenworth3.7 miles21
Deuchars4.4 miles17
Jericho4.4 miles17
Beechwood4.8 miles17

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 Cape SandyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5035035The 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 432118. 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.