Fritz Corner, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lockhart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47585. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Fritz Corner within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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.

1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1903 USGS Velpen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fritz Corner in 2002, burning about 60 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
Arson/incendiarism	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 April 2002	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PIKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Hartwell	2.0 miles	19
Stendal	2.3 miles	19
Augusta	2.9 miles	19
Pikeville	3.0 miles	16
Scottsburg	3.3 miles	19
Hartwell Junction	4.5 miles	19
Zoar	5.0 miles	16
Velpen	5.0 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q28912711

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 434875. 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.