Hawton, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47882. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hymera quadrangle. It stands 466 feet above sea level.

Hawton within Sullivan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1943 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000
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 Hymera quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Hawton between 2001 and 2006, burning about 9 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 March 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2004	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 March 2005	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 December 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 November 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 January 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan 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
Baker	0.3 miles	16
Greenville	1.1 miles	16
Farnsworth (historical)	2.0 miles	18
Caledonia (historical)	2.3 miles	18
Glendora	2.7 miles	16
Cass	3.2 miles	18
Scotchtown	3.6 miles	18
Jackson Hill	4.0 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q5685676

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 446726. 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.