Dixie, Indiana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47112. It lies near Devils Backbone. The Survey maps it on the Corydon West quadrangle.

Dixie within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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.

1931 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Corydon West quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Corydon West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Corydon West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dixie between 1999 and 2002, burning about 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 February 2002	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dixie: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mathes Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Unnamed Fluorite Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Valley City	4.6 miles	21
White Cloud	4.7 miles	22
Central	5.0 miles	21
New Amsterdam	5.2 miles	15
Hillcrest	5.8 miles	21
Corydon	6.0 miles	21
Harrison Grange (historical)	7.0 miles	21
Glidas	7.3 miles	21

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.

Wikidata item Q18150069

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 452036. 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.