Highets Corner, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47460. The Survey maps it on the Gosport quadrangle.

Highets Corner within Owen County

On record in Highets Corner

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.

Stone Arch Bridge over McCormick's Creeklisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1947 USGS Gosport quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Gosport 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
1965 USGS Gosport quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1998 USGS Gosport quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Highets Corner between 2004 and 2008, burning about 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
6 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
14 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 July 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 June 2007	Natural	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 June 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Freeman

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Highets Corner: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Owens Co. Hwy. Dept	Stone	Producer
Smith's Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Spencer Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dunn Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Indiana Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Spencer 520 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Spencer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Owen 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
Southport	3.1 miles	16
Spencer	3.1 miles	16
Romona	3.4 miles	18
Gosport	5.1 miles	18
Silex	5.9 miles	18
Braysville	6.1 miles	17
Freeman	6.2 miles	24
Hancock Corner	6.6 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 436145. 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.