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Elkinsville, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47448. It stands on Spanker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Elkinsville quadrangle. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Elkinsville within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

Fires near this place

33 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Elkinsville between 1995 and 2018, burning about 200 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresHoosier National ForestDUNKEY
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestFLEETWOOD CEMETERY
4 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestNEBO
16 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestCAMPSITE
8 April 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestMAUMEE FIRE
4 April 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestHICKORY RIDGE FIRE
4 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresHoosier National Forest1150N FIRE
3 April 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresHoosier National ForestDECKARD RIDGE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Elkinsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown County Native Stone Co QuarryFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elkinsville in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindElkinsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Youno (historical)2.8 miles19
Story3.1 miles21
Christiansburg5.8 miles21
Spurgeons Corner6.4 miles21
Buffalo (historical)6.5 miles21
West Overlook6.6 miles20
Stone Head6.7 miles21
Belmont6.8 miles20

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 ElkinsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5364341The 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 450887. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.