Gilmour, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 47438. The Survey maps it on the Jasonville quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Gilmour within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1940 USGS Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Gilmour between 2001 and 2008, burning about 67 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 ceremony	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4

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 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 June 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
Antioch	2.3 miles	19
Midland	2.7 miles	19
Midland Junction	3.0 miles	19
Jasonville	3.1 miles	17
Vicksburg	3.6 miles	19
Ellis	4.8 miles	19
Redcuff Corner	5.2 miles	17
Hoosier	5.3 miles	19

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 Gilmour	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5562545	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 435082. 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.