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Marrs Center, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Marrs Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47620. The Survey maps it on the Caborn quadrangle.

Marrs Center within Posey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Marrs Center in 2011, 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
25 October 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryW.T.H.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Posey 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
Heusler2.4 miles16
Philip Station2.6 miles16
Caborn2.6 miles18
Saint Philip3.5 miles16
West Franklin4.1 miles16
Lippe4.8 miles19
Bufkin5.6 miles18
Parkers Settlement7.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 438645. 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.