Newry, Indiana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Vernon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47274. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chestnut Ridge quadrangle.

Newry within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Chestnut Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Newry between 1999 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
20 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge	VAN FIRE
17 May 2001	Natural	under an acre	Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge	ENDICOTT
1 November 1999	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge	ABC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Kriete Corner	1.0 miles	8
Chestnut Ridge	2.3 miles	8
New Farmington	2.8 miles	8
Uniontown	4.1 miles	8
Fleming	4.8 miles	8
Langoons	5.0 miles	8
Conologue	5.0 miles	8
Seymour	5.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452199. 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.