Eastgate, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46040. The Survey maps it on the Ingalls quadrangle.

Eastgate within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1952 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

4,977 words on this township

History of Hancock County, Indiana; Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Vernon Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Vernon Township - 4,977 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Eastgate in 2004, burning about 1 acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 April 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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 Eastgate: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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
	Mccordsville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Reeves Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hancock 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
Colonial Village	0.5 miles	10
Helmcrest	0.9 miles	10
Fortville	1.0 miles	10
Denny Corner	3.1 miles	10
Eden	3.6 miles	10
Woodbury	3.8 miles	12
Sugar Hills	4.8 miles	12
Cooper Corner	5.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 433951. 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.