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Ogilville, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47201. The Survey maps it on the New Bellsville quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Ogilville within Bartholomew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ogilville between 1999 and 2000, burning about 5 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 burning3

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
7 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresHoosier National ForestMT HEALTHY
31 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestLEHMAN
25 October 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestPONDEROSA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogilville in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindOgilville$20,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a camper. Additional sporadic damage reported in the western and southern portions of the county.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindOgilville$10,000A barn roof was blown off and a trailer was blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts along with several nearby reports of tree and tree limb damage.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindOgilville$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a 15 inch diameter tree.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindOgilville$1,000A tree of unknown size was downed by thunderstorm wind gusts at this location.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindOgilville$250Small tree limbs were downed due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. Heavy rainfall was also observed.
June 2010HailOgilville-no account filed
November 2002HailOgilville-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindOgilville-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindOgilville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bartholomew 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
North Ogilville0.6 miles18
Grandview Lake2.5 miles18
Mount Healthy3.3 miles20
Harrison Lake4.0 miles18
Bethany4.2 miles18
Waymansville4.6 miles20
Rosstown4.7 miles13
Bethel Village5.1 miles14

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 OgilvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7080054The 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 440518. 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.

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.