BlockGnaw Bone, Indiana
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47448. It stands on Mount Liberty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1942 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Gnaw Bone between 2009 and 2016, burning about 12 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 | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | 135 CAMPFIRE |
| 16 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 6.5 acres | Hoosier National Forest | WEST BAKER HOLLOW |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gnaw Bone: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown County Highway Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gnaw Bone in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Gnaw Bone | $10,000 | A small portion of Brown Hill Road was washed out because of flooding due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gnaw Bone | $5,000 | Trees were reported to be down in the area due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gnaw Bone | $4,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed 3 trees across southern Brown County. |
| July 2014 | Hail | Gnaw Bone | - | Pea to quarter size hail was reported in Gnaw Bone. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Liberty | 1.4 miles | 21 | |
| Clarksdale | 1.7 miles | 21 | |
| Camp Roberts | 2.2 miles | 21 | |
| Stone Head | 4.2 miles | 21 | |
| Lake on the Green | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Pikes Peak | 4.3 miles | 21 | |
| Town Hill | 4.9 miles | 21 | |
| Gatesville | 4.9 miles | 23 |
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 Gnaw Bone | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3444174 | 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 452046. 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.
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.