Hanfield, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46952. The Survey maps it on the Van Buren quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Hanfield within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

10,581 words on this township

History of Grant County, Indiana, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 10,581 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hanfield between 2001 and 2007, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 April 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 March 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanfield in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Hanfield	-	Damage pictures and an eyewitness report indicate a brief, small torando formed just west of a large farm in northeast Grant county. The tornado moved above a tens of a mile in an east northeast direction, substantially damaging a newer farm building. The roofing material of this barn was lifted and thrown east over the top of two other barns which only sustained minor damage. The roof trusses were flipped upside down, mainly landing inside the building. Additional roofing and siding material from the building was hurled east into and over grain silos and barns on the east side of the property. This debris was strewn up to approximately severe tenths of a mile east across an open field. Damage was consistent with an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds to 105 mph.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Hanfield	-	Power lines down

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Landess	1.1 miles	11
Shadeland	1.6 miles	11
Lake Wood	3.6 miles	11
Dooville	3.7 miles	11
Van Buren	4.1 miles	11
Shady Hills	5.1 miles	12
Marion	5.3 miles	12
Friendly Corner	5.4 miles	11

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 Hanfield	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5647785	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 435674. 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.