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Evanston, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Huff Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47531. It stands on Middle Fork Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fulda quadrangle. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Evanston within Spencer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Evanston between 2001 and 2006, burning about 40 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
5 July 2001Smokingunder an acreHoosier National ForestTROY
14 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spencer 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
Schley1.7 miles15
New Boston2.1 miles15
Maxville3.1 miles15
Lamar4.0 miles15
Fulda5.0 miles15
Kennedy5.2 miles15
Liberal5.4 miles15
Huffman5.5 miles15

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 EvanstonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5415992The 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 434257. 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.