Lowell, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Columbus Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47201. The Survey maps it on the Edinburgh quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Lowell within Bartholomew County

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.

1942 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Edinburgh quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lowell between 2004 and 2005, burning about 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
2 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lowell: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Carter Gravel Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rees Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Spray Sand and Gravel Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Bartholomew 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
Corn Brook	0.7 miles	14
North Gate	0.7 miles	15
Riverview Acres	1.5 miles	14
Flat Rock Park	1.6 miles	15
Forest Park	2.1 miles	14
Parkside	2.1 miles	14
North Columbus	2.4 miles	14
Taylorsville	3.0 miles	15

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 Q6693151

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 438357. 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.