Mount Healthy, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47201. The Survey maps it on the Waymansville quadrangle. It stands 650 feet above sea level.

Mount Healthy within Bartholomew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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.

1942 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:125000
1948 USGS Waymansville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Waymansville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mount Healthy between 1999 and 2018, burning about 52 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning	7
Arson/incendiarism	4
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
7 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	LUTHERAN LAKE
7 March 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	MT HEALTHY
31 March 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	OGALA 2
31 March 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	LEHMAN
27 March 2003	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Hoosier National Forest	CALLAHAM FIRE
23 March 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	OGOLA
22 March 2009	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SPRAYTOWN FIRE
21 November 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	SUNDANCE FACILITIES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew 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
Waymansville	1.2 miles	20
Ogilville	3.3 miles	18
North Ogilville	3.9 miles	18
Grandview Lake	5.0 miles	18
Rosstown	6.1 miles	13
Bethany	6.6 miles	18
Harrison Lake	7.2 miles	18
Bethel Village	7.8 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 Mount Healthy	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688656	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 451244. 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.