Howesville, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47438. The Survey maps it on the Jasonville quadrangle. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Howesville within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1940 USGS Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
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 Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

39 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Howesville between 2002 and 2008, burning about 82 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
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
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
6 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
25 July 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Howesville: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free. 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	Recorded
Coal Iii Underclay	Clay	Past Producer
Coal Iii Underclay	Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free	Past Producer	1967
Lower Block Coal Underclays	Clay	Past Producer
Lower Block Coal Underclays	Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Brunswick	2.0 miles	18
Bogle Corner	2.0 miles	17
New Brunswick	2.4 miles	18
Buchanan Corner	3.2 miles	17
Coalmont	4.6 miles	17
Middlebury	6.2 miles	16
Barrick Corner	6.7 miles	16
Danville	6.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Howesville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688434	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 436555. 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.