North Oaks, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46714. It stands on Halls Creek. The Survey maps it on the Uniondale quadrangle.

North Oaks within Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Uniondale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of North Oaks between 2002 and 2004, burning about 16 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
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
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
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 June 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wells 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 North Oaks: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Erie Stone Company-Bluffton	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z75	Zinc, Sulfur	Occurrence	Sphalerite
Wells Co. Hwy. Dept	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Wells 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
Toll Gate Heights	1.4 miles	10
Murray	1.8 miles	10
Bluffton	2.6 miles	11
Kingsland	3.7 miles	10
Craigville	4.4 miles	10
Greenwood	4.7 miles	10
Tocsin	5.0 miles	10
Uniondale	5.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 440281. 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.