Douglas, Indiana

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47670. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Douglas within Gibson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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.

1901 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Patoka quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1903 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

13,276 words on this township

History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Center Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Douglas, who died July 23, 1876. The maiden name of his present wife was Priscilla Leach. Dr. James C. Patten, of Francisco, is a descendant of one of the early residents of the county. His grandfather, James Patten, was a captain in the Revolutionary War. After the termination of hostilities he moved to Tennessee, and in 1804 settled on Green River Island, Ky., and a few years later became a resident of Gibson County. He settled on a place about three miles south of where occurred about 1816. He raised a large family of children, among whom was Hugh H. Patten. He was. for many years a leading physician in Princeton. He died at the advanced age of cighty years in the year 1876. He was the father of Dr. James C. Patten.

Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Center Township.

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Douglas between 2003 and 2016, burning about 3 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
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 February 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 November 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	HUGHES FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gibson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Douglas: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
	Gibson County Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Gibson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. 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
June 2018	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	Flash flooding was reported along a county road on the north side of Princeton. Water was over Highway 64 east of Princeton.

Every storm recorded in Gibson 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
Francisco	3.0 miles	17
Fort Gibson (historical)	3.7 miles	24
Baldwin Heights	3.8 miles	24
Princeton	3.9 miles	24
King	4.3 miles	24
Wheeling	6.2 miles	17
Durham	6.5 miles	24
Patoka	6.9 miles	24

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 Q5301149

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 433652. 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.