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Fredonia, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47137. It stands on Low Gap Branch. The Survey maps it on the Beechwood quadrangle.

Fredonia within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fredonia between 2001 and 2015, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresHoosier National ForestHIGH WALL
11 June 2015Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresHoosier National ForestBIRDS CEMETERY
1 April 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestBEECHWOOD
31 March 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestORCHARD
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestRIDDLE #2
12 March 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestCAREFREE FIRE
11 March 2001Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Fredonia: 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Fluorite OccurrencesFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Cape Sandy Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cape Sandy Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Riverside MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fredonia in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015HailFredonia-A trained spotter reported penny size hail.
May 2014HailFredonia-A spotter reported dime and quarter sized hail.
May 2010Flash FloodFredonia-Water was flowing over US 66 north of Leavenworth and over US 62 west of Leavenworth.
June 2023HailFredonia-no account filed
July 2018HailFredonia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Artist Point1.4 miles21
Cape Sandy2.0 miles21
Leavenworth2.5 miles21
Schooner Point Landing2.6 miles21
Jericho2.6 miles17
Beechwood3.0 miles17
Deuchars3.5 miles17
Alton4.3 miles16

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 FredoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18151200The 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 450931. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.