Duane Yards, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47804. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Terre Haute quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Duane Yards within Vigo County

On record in Duane Yards

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Twelve Points Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 0.6 miles away
Collett Park Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 2004 · 0.9 miles away
Collett Parklisted 1981 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1941 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Duane Yards between 2001 and 2005, burning about 261 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 June 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Duane Yards: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Terre Haute City Eng.	Stone	Producer
Harlan Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Standard Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Terre Haute North Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Whitlock Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Vigo 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
Twelve Points	0.5 miles	17
Preston	1.2 miles	15
Dewey	1.2 miles	17
Parkview	1.5 miles	17
Terre Town	1.7 miles	17
Spelterville	2.3 miles	17
Terre Haute	2.4 miles	17
Barnhart Town	2.6 miles	17

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 Q5310404

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 433735. 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.