Ethel, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47118. It stands on Cane Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenbrier quadrangle. It stands 571 feet above sea level.

Ethel within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1956 USGS Greenbrier quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Greenbrier quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Greenbrier quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Ethel between 1996 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
13 July 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	RIDDLE
16 April 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	RILEY
1 April 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	ZOO
5 March 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	WHITE OAK
4 March 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PATOKA LAKE
31 March 2015	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Hoosier National Forest	TONY'S MARINE
22 March 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.6 acres	Hoosier National Forest	GRIMES LAKE
19 March 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	25 acres	Hoosier National Forest	ENGLISH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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
Fargo	2.2 miles	15
Greenbrier	4.4 miles	15
Bacon	4.9 miles	15
Youngs Creek	5.3 miles	15
Newton Stewart	5.7 miles	15
Pine Valley	6.4 miles	15
Pearsontown	7.1 miles	15
Valeene	7.2 miles	15

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 Ethel	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197795	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 450895. 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.