BlockErie, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Shawswick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47421. The Survey maps it on the Bartlettsville quadrangle. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 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.
- 1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:48000
- 1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500
- 1937 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Bartlettsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Bartlettsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Erie between 2000 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 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 | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | WALNUT TREE |
| 8 June 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | LOYD W |
| 8 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LITTLE GILBERTS CK |
| 31 March 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 5.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | LEESVILLE |
| 22 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Hoosier National Forest | BACK CREEK |
| 29 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SHAWSWICK FIRE |
| 3 October 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | BLUECHIP |
| 25 October 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | WALK AWAY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Erie in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF3) | Erie | $150,000 | National Weather Service storm survey teams determined an EF-3 tornado struck near Bedford, damaging or destroying several buildings in a 6.8 mile long swath up to a quarter mile wide. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Erie | $1,000 | Tree and power line downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts near the intersection of State Road 446 and US 50. |
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.
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 Erie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5388258 | 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 450894. 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.
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.