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Morvins Landing, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Heth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47135. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mauckport quadrangle.

Morvins Landing within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Morvins Landing between 2001 and 2011, burning about 37 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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
7 April 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMEADE-OLIN PARK FIRE
2 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Morvins Landing: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
No. 4 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lucas Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Neely Pit #1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Harrison 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
Mauckport2.1 miles21
Glidas3.3 miles21
Tobacco Landing4.3 miles20
Laconia4.6 miles20
Titus5.6 miles15
Cedar Farm Landing6.1 miles16
Central6.2 miles21
Valley City6.5 miles21

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 Q122539776The 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 449840. 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.