Curryville, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46731. The Survey maps it on the Preble quadrangle.

Curryville within Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Preble quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Curryville between 2002 and 2004, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 November 2004	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 October 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wells 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Craigville	1.1 miles	10
Tocsin	3.6 miles	10
Toll Gate Heights	5.4 miles	10
North Oaks	5.4 miles	10
Vera Cruz	5.9 miles	11
Bluffton	6.2 miles	11
Riverside	6.3 miles	11
Kingsland	6.3 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 433257. 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.