Glezen, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Patoka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47567. The Survey maps it on the Petersburg quadrangle.

Glezen within Pike 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.

1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1903 USGS Petersburg 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 Petersburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Glezen between 1999 and 2016, burning about 500 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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
6 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	PECAN
8 April 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	8.5 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	MAXEY!
7 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	SNAKEY POINT
13 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	365 acres	Indiana Division of Forestry	WINSLOW SPOILS
19 February 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	BOYD TRAIL FIRE
18 November 1999	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	LANGFORD
9 October 2001	Smoking	80 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	BRITTINGHA
25 October 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	HURRICANE CREEK

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
Littles	1.3 miles	17
Willisville	2.4 miles	17
Rumble	2.6 miles	17
Chandler	2.7 miles	17
Campbelltown	3.3 miles	17
Muren	3.8 miles	18
Ashby Yards	4.1 miles	17
Ayrshire	4.4 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 435127. 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.