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Maumee, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Salt Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47264. It stands on Negro Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkinsville quadrangle. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Maumee within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

65 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Maumee between 1995 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning22
Recreation and ceremony20
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestTAYLOR
3 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHoosier National ForestHICKORY CREEK CHURCH
3 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestHICKORY RIDGE CAMPFI
3 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestHICKORY 2
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestFLEETWOOD CEMETERY
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresHoosier National ForestLUTES FIRE
27 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresHoosier National ForestHICKORY 3
24 August 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHoosier National ForestHICKORY CAMP FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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 Maumee: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown County Native Stone Co QuarryFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maumee in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMaumee-A 60 mph estimated damaging wind gust was observed in this location.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Houston3.8 miles21
Norman4.8 miles17
Bald Knobs4.8 miles21
Kurtz5.2 miles16
Clear Spring7.2 miles16
Freetown7.8 miles16
Spraytown9.6 miles20
Acme11.2 miles13

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 Q6792481The 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 451203. 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.