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Frenchtown, 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 Seigs Hill. The Survey maps it on the Depauw quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Frenchtown 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.

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 Frenchtown 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/undetermined1

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
10 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined76 acresHoosier National ForestJENNY HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Frenchtown: 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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
Fluorite Occurrence #2Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorite Occurrence #2Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
John S. Davis PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Louisville Cement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Milltown Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frenchtown in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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 2015Flash FloodFrenchtown-A trained spotter reported that Frenchtown-Milltown Road closed due to fast moving high water flowing over it. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain fell on top of very saturated ground.
April 2008FloodFrenchtown-Some county roads were closed due to high water.
June 2001Flash FloodFrenchtown-Water covered roads near Frenchtown.
May 2006HailFrenchtown-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Depauw1.4 miles14
Little Saint Louis1.4 miles14
Fairdale2.4 miles14
Wynnsboro (historical)2.9 miles14
Moberly3.1 miles14
Ramsey3.2 miles14
Hancock Chapel5.0 miles14
White Cloud6.0 miles22

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 FrenchtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5502741The 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 434836. 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.