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Newton Stewart, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 47116. It stands on Fleming Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cuzco quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Newton Stewart within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Newton Stewart between 1996 and 2020, burning about 121 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoosier National ForestBAILER
16 April 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresHoosier National ForestRILEY
7 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestTRESTLE ROAD FIRE
23 March 2003Debris and open burning8.0 acresHoosier National ForestLAMAR
20 March 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresHoosier National ForestTASWELL EAST
19 March 1996Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresHoosier National ForestENGLISH
14 March 2014Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoosier National ForestSAWMILL
11 March 2003Debris and open burning6.3 acresHoosier National ForestMCDONALD CHAPEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newton Stewart: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Eckerty MineStoneProducer
Eckerty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newton Stewart in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Newton Stewart-An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF1 tornado with estimated wind speed up to 100 mph. This tornado touched down just west of Tony's Marina near Indiana 145. Trees were uprooted and snapped. A large metal barn with cinder block walls was destroyed. The tornado then crossed Route 145 and moved in to Tony's Marina. Three metal outbuildings were damaged or destroyed. One of the buildings had its doors blown in...another had its metal roof peeled back...and the third was leveled and blown 300 yards downwind. Trees were uprooted in a convergent pattern. Some trees fell on power poles, causing the poles to snap. A pontoon boat was flipped over.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Ethel5.7 miles15
Greenbrier7.1 miles15
Fargo7.7 miles15
Norton8.8 miles13
Youngs Creek9.8 miles15
Bacon10.5 miles15
Pine Valley11.6 miles15
French Lick12.0 miles15

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 Newton StewartAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197831The 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 452173. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.