BlockEast Shelburn, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Curry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47879. The Survey maps it on the Shelburn quadrangle. It stands 525 feet above sea level.
On record in East Shelburn
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Shelburn Interurban Depot-THI&E Interurban Depotlisted 2015 · 0.8 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1942 USGS Shelburn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Shelburn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Shelburn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of East Shelburn between 2001 and 2005, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 22 March 2003 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 March 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelburn | 0.8 miles | 18 | |
| Jackson Hill | 1.0 miles | 16 | |
| Curryville | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| Standard | 1.6 miles | 18 | |
| Wilfred | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Massacre | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| Campbell Corner | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Glendora | 3.3 miles | 16 |
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 Shelburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5329343 | 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 433928. 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.