Eel River, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47841. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clay City quadrangle. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Eel River within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1908 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:48000
1910 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Eel River in 2003, burning under an acre 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
10 November 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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 Eel River: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Zinc, Sulfur. 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
	Clay City Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
	Sphalerite Occurrence Z83	Zinc, Sulfur	Occurrence	Stratabound

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Saline City	2.9 miles	17
Clay City	3.3 miles	16
Middlebury	4.1 miles	16
Danville	4.4 miles	16
Old Hill	4.7 miles	17
Ashboro	5.3 miles	16
Barrick Corner	5.3 miles	16
Art	5.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Eel River	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5347055	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 434035. 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.