Jackson, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47023. It stands on Falling Timber Branch. The Survey maps it on the Holton quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Jackson within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Holton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Jackson between 2003 and 2020, burning about 2,306 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Firearms and explosives use	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
1 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	280 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	K ROAD FIRE
30 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 9 FIRE
6 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 3 FIRE
28 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 5 FIRE
26 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE 4 FIRE
2 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	RANGE FIRE
16 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	SHUNK FARM FIRE
10 April 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	SHRAPNEL FOUR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley 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
Holton	3.0 miles	10
Dabney	5.3 miles	9
New Marion	5.9 miles	9
Jolleyville	6.5 miles	8
Otter Village	6.9 miles	9
Allen Crossing	7.1 miles	9
Saint Magdalen	7.9 miles	9
Osgood	9.1 miles	11

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 Q28912659

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 449042. 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.