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Ironton, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Halbert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47581. It stands on Iron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shoals quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Ironton within Martin County

On record in Ironton

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Ironton between 2001 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 March 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresHoosier National ForestDAVIS SCHOOL ROAD
20 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestWINDOM
14 March 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHoosier National ForestMILL ROAD
11 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresHoosier National ForestCOUNTY FARM
11 March 2001Smoking17 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BADEN POND
19 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoosier National ForestCANARY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 150 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 150 workings within 5 miles of Ironton: 114 occurrences, 27 prospects, 6 producers, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Silica. 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
General Refractories QuarrySilicaPast Producer
National Gypsum Co. Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1951, 1955
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
U.S. Gypsum Co. Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1951, 1955
United States Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
United States Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Opening No. 11IronOccurrence
Opening No. 12IronOccurrence
Opening No. 12IronProspect

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ironton in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindIronton$10,000Thunderstorm winds downed two trees into Weisbach Community Church; before downing more trees 0.7 miles farther to the east-northeast at Old Paths Tract Society.

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Shoals0.9 miles15
Shoals Overlook1.9 miles15
Lacy2.0 miles15
Pleasant Valley2.5 miles15
Willow Valley3.7 miles18
Dover Hill4.6 miles15
Natchez4.6 miles13
Hindostan Falls4.8 miles12

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 IrontonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688496The 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 451089. 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.