BlockLancaster, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47250. It stands on Middle Fork Creek. The Survey maps it on the Volga quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.
On record in Lancaster
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 2 records
Eleutherian CollegeNational Historic Landmark · listed 1993
Lyman and Asenath Hoyt Houselisted 2003
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Volga quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Lancaster in 2002, burning under an acre 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 December 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lancaster: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Plant No 3 Quarry & Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lancaster in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Multiple trees were blown down and a barn roof was damaged by strong thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees blew down in northern Jefferson County. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | There was a report of trees down near Lancaster. |
| March 2015 | Flood | Lancaster | - | Heavy rain led to rapid rises on the Middle Fork Creek. This led to the washing out of State Road 250 near Lancaster. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A local official reported several trees down along Indiana State Highway 52 near Danville. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | Trees were blown down between Deputy and Lancaster. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A tree was reported down with a storm that also produced pea-sized hail. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lancaster | - | A couple trees were downed. |
| June 1996 | Hail | Lancaster | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Points | 1.1 miles | 8 | |
| Middlefork | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Calloway Station (historical) | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Midway | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Volga | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Neavill Grove | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Wakefield | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Wirt | 3.8 miles | 10 |
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 Lancaster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6483074 | 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 437590. 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.