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Garden Acres, Indiana

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47403. The Survey maps it on the Clear Creek quadrangle.

Garden Acres within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

In the county-history sources

9,632 words on this township

1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Van Buren Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Van Buren Township - 9,632 words.

Fires near this place

95 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Garden Acres between 2003 and 2013, burning about 52 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 were 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
Recreation and ceremony30
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Garden Acres: 16 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Bloomington LimestoneStoneProducer
Bloomington QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hinkle Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
4-R QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Acme QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Adams QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Arlington MillLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Ashtone MillLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Beck QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Buffalo QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe 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
Van Buren Park0.8 miles25
Leonard Springs1.1 miles25
Kirby1.9 miles25
Clear Creek2.3 miles27
Broadview2.4 miles25
Highland Village2.5 miles25
Sunny Slopes2.5 miles25
Hunter Switch3.4 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 434942. 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.