Heltonville, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pleasant Run Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47436. The Survey maps it on the Bartlettsville quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Heltonville within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500
1937 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Bartlettsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Bartlettsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Heltonville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 2012	Natural	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	WALNUT TREE
8 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	LOYD W
22 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BALDWIN
3 May 2014	Natural	1.2 acres	Hoosier National Forest	RAMSEY RIDGE
11 May 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	SR 446
8 April 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	HENDERSON
27 April 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	MCPIKE BRANCH
19 April 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	CAR FIRE 446

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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 Heltonville: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
	Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Shawswick	3.0 miles	18
Erie	3.1 miles	18
Zelma	3.9 miles	17
Bartlettsville	4.6 miles	18
Crawford	5.8 miles	17
Coveyville	6.0 miles	18
Thornton	6.7 miles	22
Peerless	6.8 miles	22

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 Heltonville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5710642	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 451026. 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.