Ellis, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stockton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47848. The Survey maps it on the Linton quadrangle. It stands 545 feet above sea level.

Ellis within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1940 USGS Linton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Linton quadrangle1:24000, 3 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 Linton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

794 words on this township

Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Stockton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Honorable Butler was among the leading cattle dealers in this county. He was a common farmer, and was a member of the Constitutional Convention of our State, and a faithful servant of the people. Mr. Butler and wife had four sons - George, John, James and Simeon. William Ellis is also one of the

Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Stockton Township.

Fires near this place

24 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Ellis between 2001 and 2008, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3

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
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 April 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
24 April 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
Victoria	1.2 miles	19
Hoosier	2.0 miles	19
White Rose	2.2 miles	19
Vicksburg	2.3 miles	19
Antioch	2.5 miles	19
Summit	2.6 miles	19
Midland Junction	3.4 miles	19
Linton	3.6 miles	19

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 Ellis	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5365819	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 434104. 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.