BlockEast Mount Carmel, Indiana
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in White River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47665. It stands on Patoka River. The Survey maps it on the East Mount Carmel quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 24 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.
- 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 East Mount Carmel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
10,128 words on this townshipSPC BOOKS STOR - 977.235 H History Of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884; History of Gibson County, Indiana : Her People, Industries and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on White River Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on White River Township - 10,128 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of East Mount Carmel in 2010, burning about 43 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 43 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | CANE RIDGE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Mount Carmel: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alka and Kieffer Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mount Carmel Plant & Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| White River | 0.4 miles | 20 | |
| Skelton | 4.1 miles | 19 | |
| Lyles | 4.8 miles | 23 | |
| Johnson | 8.0 miles | 23 | |
| Patoka | 8.5 miles | 24 | |
| Owensville | 8.9 miles | 23 | |
| Crawleyville | 8.9 miles | 19 | |
| Princeton | 9.8 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.
| Wikipedia article on East Mount Carmel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5329015 | 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 433922. 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.