Fairdale, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47115. It lies near Opossum Trial Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Depauw quadrangle.

Fairdale within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1946 USGS Depauw quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Depauw quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fairdale in 2017, burning about 76 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/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
10 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76 acres	Hoosier National Forest	JENNY HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fairdale: 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fluorite Occurrence #2	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
Fluorite Occurrence #2	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence
John S. Davis Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Milltown Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Ramsey	0.9 miles	14
Frenchtown	2.4 miles	14
Depauw	2.5 miles	14
Little Saint Louis	3.8 miles	14
Hancock Chapel	3.9 miles	14
Corydon Junction	4.1 miles	13
New Salisbury	4.1 miles	13
Moberly	4.4 miles	14

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 Fairdale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150603	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 434290. 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.