BlockMentor, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47513. The Survey maps it on the Birdseye quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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 Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Birdseye quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Birdseye quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Birdseye quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
824 words on this townshipHistory of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Mentor. Francis M. Sanders is the founder of this town. He was a great admirer of President Garfield, and named the town in his honor. Henry Berger was the surveyor. The postoffice for this place was Altoga. It was discontinued July 15, 1908.
Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
15 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Mentor between 1998 and 2014, burning about 51 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | ANDERSON VALLEY |
| 3 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Hoosier National Forest | REDBUD FIRE |
| 18 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | U-38 |
| 24 March 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | INDIAN LAKE |
| 14 March 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SAWMILL |
| 11 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SINCLAIR ROAD |
| 29 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | BIRDSEYE FIRE |
| 28 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.3 acres | Hoosier National Forest | WICKLIFFE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mentor in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mentor | 1 hurt | A large tree fell down west of Birdseye around the intersection of Schellville Road and 975. The tree fell on a vehicle, and the driver sustained a minor injury. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mentor | - | Trees were reported down in the area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birdseye | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Schnellville | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Kyana | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Marks | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Celestine | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Anthony | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Ellsworth | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Bretzville | 8.3 miles | 13 |
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 Mentor | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6817586 | 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 451211. 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.
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.