Georgetown, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46637. The Survey maps it on the South Bend East quadrangle.

Georgetown within St. Joseph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS South Bend East quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS South Bend East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS South Bend East quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

17,425 words on this township

History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clay Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clay Township - 17,425 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 2018 and 2019, burning about 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
17 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018156 - 2018
1 May 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018132 - 2018
9 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NILES FD 2190310 - 2019
27 March 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2019095 - 2019
25 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018088 - 2018
25 March 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2018090 - 2018
23 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	NILES TOWNSHIP FD 2019091 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Georgetown: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
South Bend S & G Corp.	Stone	Producer
South Bend Sand & Gravel Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
South Bend Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
St. Joseph Co. Hwy. Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Steenburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in St. Joseph 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
Indian Village	1.1 miles	14
Roseland	1.6 miles	13
Dreamwold Heights	2.1 miles	16
Maple Lane	2.1 miles	14
State Line	2.4 miles	16
South Bend	3.4 miles	13
Ardmore	5.5 miles	13
Mishawaka	5.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867273. 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.