Moonville, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46001. It stands on Heagy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gilman quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Moonville within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 14 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gilman quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Moonville in 2004, 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 ceremony	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
30 October 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Moonville: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Alexander & Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Anderson Pit-Aggregates of Anderson	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Anderson Pit-Irving Materials, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Riddle Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rose Hill Gravel Co., Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Gilman	3.1 miles	14
Prosperity	3.9 miles	14
Linwood	4.3 miles	14
Chesterfield	5.6 miles	13
North Anderson	5.7 miles	14
Alexandria	6.2 miles	12
Glyn Ellen	6.2 miles	14
Florida	6.2 miles	14

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 Moonville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6907994	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 439387. 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.