BlockFayetteville, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Posey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47125. It stands on Sinking Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hardinsburg quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1947 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Hardinsburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,575 words on this townshipCentennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Posey Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Posey Township - 2,575 words.
Fires near this place
3 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fayetteville between 2001 and 2004, burning about 44 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Hoosier National Forest | WASHINGTON FIRE |
| 12 November 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | OAKGROVE |
| 28 October 2001 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Hoosier National Forest | COMPTON CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardinsburg | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Fredericksburg | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Organ Springs | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Rosebud | 5.9 miles | 12 | |
| Livonia | 7.3 miles | 11 | |
| Becks Mill | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Shorts Corner | 9.2 miles | 14 | |
| Claysville | 11.9 miles | 11 |
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 Fayetteville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q25199038 | 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 451779. 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.