Middlefork, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47231. The Survey maps it on the Clifty Falls quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Middlefork within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Clifty Falls quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Clifty Falls quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Clifty Falls quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Middlefork between 2002 and 2020, burning about 182 acres 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
Debris and open burning	1
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
9 March 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	182 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	MISS FIRE IN-BOR SPRING 2020
5 December 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Middlefork: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Jefferson Plant No 3 Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Calloway Station (historical)	1.1 miles	10
Five Points	2.0 miles	8
Midway	2.6 miles	10
Lancaster	2.9 miles	8
Wirt	3.2 miles	10
Dupont	3.3 miles	10
Wirt Station	3.4 miles	10
Smyrna	5.0 miles	10

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 Middlefork	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688619	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 439115. 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.