BlockMonte Cassino Shrine, Indiana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47532. It stands on Abbey Run. The Survey maps it on the Saint Meinrad quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 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.
- 1900 USGS St Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS St Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS St. Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Saint Meinrad quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Monte Cassino Shrine between 2000 and 2004, burning about 7 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 | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 August 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | I-64 |
| 13 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | BRISTOW-ST MEINRAD |
| 15 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | MT. SINAI |
| 19 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | CANDLESTICK FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Meinrad | 0.7 miles | 16 | |
| Fulda | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Huffman | 5.7 miles | 15 | |
| Mariah Hill | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Santa Claus | 7.1 miles | 15 | |
| Santa Fe | 7.2 miles | 15 | |
| New Boston | 8.4 miles | 15 | |
| Kennedy | 9.2 miles | 15 |
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 Q122553312 | 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 439353. 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.