Hobbieville, Indiana

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.

• 1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:48000
• 1942 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Owensburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1975 USGS Owensburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hobbieville between 1993 and 2008, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cincinnati
• Solsberry
• Koleen
• Owensburg
• Tanner

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Hobbieville: 10 occurrences, 2 prospects. 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.

Every working recorded in Greene County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451047. 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.