BlockOliver, Indiana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47620. It stands on Old Brook. The Survey maps it on the Wadesville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1903 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Patoka quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1938 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS New Harmony quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Wadesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Wadesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
124 words on this townshipHistory and Directory of Posey County [Indiana] : Containing an Account of the Early Settlement and Organization of the County ... : Also a Complete List of the Tax-payers, Their Post-office Addresses and Places of Residence, Together with a Business Directory of Mt. Vernon and New Harmony ... Also Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1882 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Center Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Center Township - 124 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oliver in 2004, burning about 10 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 February 2004 | Debris and open burning | 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springfield | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Hepburn | 2.7 miles | 19 | |
| Solitude | 3.7 miles | 21 | |
| Bufkin | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Blairsville | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Lippe | 4.9 miles | 19 | |
| Wadesville | 5.0 miles | 19 | |
| Farmersville | 5.3 miles | 19 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 440652. 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.