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Coveyville, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Marshall Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47421. The Survey maps it on the Bartlettsville quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Coveyville within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Coveyville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 194 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Other causes2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestCRAZY JOE
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestROAD SIDE
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSTAR
23 August 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestPOWER LINE
5 July 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresHoosier National ForestPOWERLINE
4 July 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresHoosier National ForestHAY BALE
8 June 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestCLIFT
30 June 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestCAMPFIRE 191

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Coveyville: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Iron, Limestone, General, Lead, Zinc. 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
Number 3 Needmore QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z70Lead, Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite
Guthrie QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Peerless QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coveyville in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 tornado. 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
November 2005Tornado (F1)Coveyville$50,000An F1 tornado touched down briefly in northern Lawrence county, damaging two homes. This tornado came from the same supercell that spawned an F3 tornado in Daviess and Martin counties. The supercell would go on to produce an additional F3 in Bartholomew and Shelby counties later in the afternoon.

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
Bartlettsville1.6 miles18
Guthrie2.0 miles22
Stemm2.0 miles22
Logan2.9 miles22
Judah3.5 miles22
Peerless3.7 miles22
Thornton4.2 miles22
Needmore4.4 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 CoveyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5179320The 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 450809. 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.