BlockCrystal, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47527. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dubois quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
784 words on this townshipHistory of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Columbia Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Crystal. This is a hamlet situated on the line of sections twenty-one and twentj'-eight. It has a graded school, churches, and postofl&ce. The office was established October 9, 1889. R. P. Smith was for many years its principal merchant. There is no town plat of Crystal.
Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Crystal between 2001 and 2019, burning about 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SPURGEON |
| 28 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | GOLF BALL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crystal in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2012: 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crystal | - | The Dubois County emergency manager reported several downed trees near Crystal. |
| May 2011 | Flash Flood | Crystal | - | Water was over state Hwy. 56 east in eastern Dubois. |
| January 2008 | Flash Flood | Crystal | - | Fast flowing water was over Indiana Highway 56 near Cuzco. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cuzco | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Thales | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Dubois Crossroads | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hillham | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Kellerville | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Dubois | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Ellsworth | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Celestine | 7.5 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 Crystal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5191098 | 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 450824. 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.
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.