Idlewold, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fall Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46064. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ingalls quadrangle.

Idlewold within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1952 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Ingalls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

3,943 words on this township

History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fall Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fall Creek Township - 3,943 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Idlewold in 2004, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
3 April 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 April 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 March 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 March 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Idlewold: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Pendleton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Sphalerite Occurrence Z73	Zinc, Sulfur	Occurrence	Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Pendleton	0.9 miles	9
Huntsville	2.0 miles	14
Ingalls	3.4 miles	10
Alfont	4.1 miles	10
Sunview	5.3 miles	10
Hardscrabble	5.3 miles	13
New Columbus	5.6 miles	14
Harmeson Heights	5.9 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122547729

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 446673. 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.