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Oakland City Junction, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47660. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oakland City quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Oakland City Junction within Pike 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.

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 Oakland City Junction between 2001 and 2016, burning about 1,149 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresPatoka River National Wildlife RefugePECAN
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined418 acresIndiana Division of ForestryMERIDIAN FIRE
8 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresPatoka River National Wildlife RefugeMAXEY!
7 April 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePatoka River National Wildlife RefugeSNAKEY POINT
15 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined716 acresIndiana Division of ForestryCOAL CAR
19 February 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresPatoka River National Wildlife RefugeBOYD TRAIL FIRE
25 October 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePatoka River National Wildlife RefugeHURRICANE CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Marysville1.9 miles18
Coe2.9 miles18
Muren3.0 miles18
Arthur3.0 miles19
Enos Corner3.6 miles18
Ayrshire4.2 miles19
Littles4.8 miles17
Scottsburg5.3 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q28912718The 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 440472. 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.