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Hanover Beach, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47243. It stands on Happy Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madison West quadrangle.

Hanover Beach within Jefferson County

On record in Hanover Beach

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Hanover Beach between 2002 and 2010, burning about 16 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeHANOVER HILL
2 July 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 July 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
26 March 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hanover Beach: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Concrete Materials Div Ls QuarryMagnesitePast Producer
Jefferson Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover Beach in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023HailHanover Beach-Quarter sized hail fell near Hanover.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hanover1.2 miles17
Antioch Grange2.3 miles17
Saluda4.2 miles17
Madison4.4 miles17
Kent5.1 miles9
North Madison5.2 miles10
Smyrna5.4 miles10
Chelsea5.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452049. 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.