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Hendricksville, Indiana

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Beech Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47459. It lies near Green Ham Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Whitehall quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Hendricksville within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

733 words on this township

Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Beech Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Beech Creek Township - 733 words.

Fires near this place

44 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Hendricksville between 2003 and 2013, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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 burning19
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 June 2008Natural1.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hendricksville: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone. 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
Hinkle Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
W. C. Hargis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hendricksville in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
January 2012Thunderstorm WindHendricksville$1,000A tree or tree limbs were blown down on Sherfield Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2018Flash FloodHendricksville$500The 911 Center reported State Road 43 closed near Hendricksville due to high water from heavy rainfall.

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
McVille2.2 miles24
Solsberry4.6 miles15
Newark5.5 miles17
Cincinnati8.1 miles22
Ridgeport8.2 miles15
Tanner9.4 miles15
Hobbieville9.5 miles21
Tulip10.4 miles15

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 HendricksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5713812The 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 436024. 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.