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Jolleyville, Indiana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Shelby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47023. It lies near Hungry Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Rexville quadrangle.

Jolleyville within Ripley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

30 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Jolleyville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,970 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning2
Firearms and explosives use2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
1 September 2011Arson/incendiarism280 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeK ROAD FIRE
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 9 FIRE
12 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeEAST PERIMETER FIRE IN-BOR SUMMER 2019 SUMMER
6 June 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 3 FIRE
28 June 2012Arson/incendiarism12 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 5 FIRE
26 June 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 4 FIRE
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE FIRE
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeSHUNK FARM 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
New Marion0.9 miles9
Saint Magdalen3.0 miles9
Rexville3.1 miles8
New Carrollton3.4 miles8
Correct4.0 miles9
Haney Corner4.8 miles8
Holton5.8 miles10
Benham5.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452195. 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.