Oak Hill, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Columbia Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47660. It lies near Kennedy Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oakland City quadrangle.

Oak Hill within Gibson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1903 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Oakland City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

7,891 words on this township

SPC BOOKS STOR - 977.235 H History Of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884; History of Gibson County, Indiana : Her People, Industries and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Columbia Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Columbia Township - 7,891 words.

Fires near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill between 2001 and 2016, burning about 1,147 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	418 acres	Indiana Division of Forestry	MERIDIAN FIRE
8 April 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	8.5 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	MAXEY!
7 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	SNAKEY POINT
15 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	716 acres	Indiana Division of Forestry	COAL CAR
28 February 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 February 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	BOYD TRAIL FIRE
6 November 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge	HUGHES FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gibson 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
Gudgel	0.5 miles	18
Somerville	1.9 miles	17
Gray Junction	2.2 miles	18
Oakland City	2.8 miles	18
Mackey	3.7 miles	17
Francisco	4.2 miles	17
Dongola	5.0 miles	18
Buckskin	5.6 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 440428. 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.