Magnet, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47520. It lies near Dark Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Magnet within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1950 USGS Alton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Alton quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Magnet between 1998 and 2015, burning about 78 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Hoosier National Forest	HIGH WALL
20 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	BUZZARD ROOST
17 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	LIBERTY
11 June 2015	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BIRDS CEMETERY
7 April 2001	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Hoosier National Forest	YEOMAN
6 April 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	CORNFIELD
7 March 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	ORIOLE POND
7 March 2000	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Magnet: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Wolf Creek Clay Bed	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Perry 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
Dexter	2.7 miles	16
Mount Pleasant	3.4 miles	16
Oriole	5.4 miles	14
Derby	5.7 miles	16
Leopold	6.4 miles	16
Branchville	7.7 miles	14
Bandon	7.8 miles	14
Gerald	8.5 miles	16

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 Magnet	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688583	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 451192. 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.