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Hashtown, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47424. It stands on Ritter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield quadrangle. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Hashtown within Greene County

On record in Hashtown

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 1 record

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 15 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.

In the county-history sources

2,196 words on this township

Early History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Richland Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Richland Township - 2,196 words.

Fires near this place

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hashtown in 2008, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 August 2008Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 July 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 November 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 November 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Hashtown: 14 occurrences, 8 prospects, 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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
Bloomfield Shale PitClayPast Producer
Greene Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own CrewsStoneProducer
Bloomfield Sand & Gravel Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Greene County PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Deposit No. 4IronOccurrence
Deposit No. 4IronOccurrence
Deposit No. 6IronOccurrence
Deposit No. 6IronProspect
Deposit No. 7IronOccurrence
Deposit No. 7IronProspect

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hashtown in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Flash FloodHashtown$100,000Part of State Road 157 along with other county roads are closed due to flash flooding that was caused by heavy rainfall. Multiple homes were flooded in Jasonville and Worthington. State Road 54 was closed.
February 2019Flash FloodHashtown$15,000Department of Natural Resources was sent to rescue a person trapped in a car near State Road 54 due to flash flooding from heavy rainfall.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindHashtown$1,000A tree was downed, along State Route 54, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2010Funnel CloudHashtown-A funnel cloud was reported just north of this location and has been present for at least five minutes.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Bloomfield0.7 miles15
Furnace1.0 miles15
Elliston2.5 miles15
Mineral City3.2 miles14
Plummer3.9 miles14
Park4.0 miles15
Tulip4.4 miles15
Stalcup Corner5.3 miles14

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 HashtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5679095The 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 435859. 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.