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Moorestown, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Spice Valley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47446. It lies near Burton Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Georgia quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Moorestown within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

23 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Moorestown between 2001 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning11
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 July 2012Natural1.0 acresHoosier National ForestOLD HOME PLACE
25 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreHoosier National ForestGEORGIA TOWER
16 May 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestSHIRLEY CREEK
1 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestTOLBERT FIRE
7 March 2012Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHoosier National ForestBONDS
30 March 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoosier National ForestSUGAR RIDGE FIRE
24 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresHoosier National ForestSCARLET
24 March 2001Debris and open burning75 acresHoosier National ForestELK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Moorestown: 14 occurrences, 12 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Flagstone, Zinc. 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
Mitchell Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z81Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite
Edwards Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Hopper Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Johnson QuarryFlagstoneProducer
North Gardner MineAluminumPast Producer
North Gardner MineAluminumPast Producer
Pennsylvania Salt Company MineAluminumPast Producer
Pennsylvania Salt Company MineAluminumPast Producer
South Gardner MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Georgia2.4 miles14
Huron2.9 miles18
Bryantsville4.1 miles21
Williams6.2 miles22
Hartleyville6.9 miles21
Redding7.1 miles21
Woodville7.4 miles17
Mitchell7.6 miles17

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 Q6908335The 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 451239. 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.