Guion, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greene Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47872. The Survey maps it on the Bellmore quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Guion within Parke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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 Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bellmore quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Guion between 2003 and 2005, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 August 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 March 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 October 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guion in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 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
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Guion	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree and several large limbs.

Every storm recorded in Parke 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
Bethany	2.1 miles	14
Pin Hook	2.1 miles	14
Parkeville	2.3 miles	13
Judson	2.4 miles	14
Milligan	3.9 miles	13
Marshall	4.1 miles	14
Byron	4.2 miles	14
Lusks Mills (historical)	5.1 miles	15

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 Guion	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5616634	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 435552. 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.