Jadden, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46953. The Survey maps it on the Roll quadrangle.

Jadden within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Roll quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

5,108 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Jadden between 2001 and 2007, burning about 29 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
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 April 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
11 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	20 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 March 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 March 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jadden: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Garthwaite Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Arcana	2.4 miles	11
Friendly Corner	2.7 miles	11
Farrville	3.1 miles	11
Doyle Ferguson	3.1 miles	11
Upland	4.6 miles	14
Dooville	5.6 miles	11
Lake Wood	6.0 miles	11
Van Buren	6.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 436909. 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.