BlockGatchel, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Anderson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47586. The Survey maps it on the Gatchel quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Gatchel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Gatchel quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
33 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Gatchel between 1993 and 2018, burning about 70 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | POISON CREEK |
| 14 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | MT. ZION |
| 5 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | AUBURN FIRE |
| 28 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SAGEBRUSH |
| 17 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | QUARRY |
| 7 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | CENTRAL PERRY |
| 29 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | ALBANY ROAD |
| 19 April 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gatchel in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2016: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gatchel | $10,000 | Perry County officials reported multiple trees down and power outages across the county. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Gatchel | - | no account filed |
| January 2006 | Hail | Gatchel | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Gatchel | - | no account filed |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gatchel | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Hail | Gatchel | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Gatchel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5526960 | 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 450948. 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.
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.