BlockNortonburg, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Flat Rock Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47246. It stands on Chicken Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hope quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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 Columbus quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Hope quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Hope quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Nortonburg between 2001 and 2005, burning about 13 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 June 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 19 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 14 November 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 2 October 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 October 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clifford | 2.6 miles | 15 | |
| Petersville | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Northcliff | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Hope | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Saint Louis Crossing | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Schaefer Lake | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Old Saint Louis | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Everroad Park | 4.4 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 Nortonburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7060708 | 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 449703. 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.