BlockFort Gibson, Indiana
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47670. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 24 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.
- 1901 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Patoka quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1903 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,103 words on this townshipHistory of Gibson County, Indiana : Her People, Industries and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Union Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Union Township - 1,103 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fort Gibson (historical) in 2003, burning under an acre 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas | 3.7 miles | 24 | |
| Durham | 4.1 miles | 24 | |
| King | 4.1 miles | 24 | |
| Fort Branch | 4.3 miles | 24 | |
| Francisco | 5.0 miles | 17 | |
| Baldwin Heights | 5.6 miles | 24 | |
| Buckskin | 6.1 miles | 20 | |
| Haubstadt | 6.1 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452145. 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.