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Oolitic, Indiana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Shawswick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47421. It lies near Diehl Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Oolitic quadrangle. 1,137 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Oolitic within Lawrence County

Population over time

2 figures

Oolitic fell from 1,184 to 1,137 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,184
20201,137-47 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Oolitic between 2002 and 2019, burning about 16 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 burning4
Other causes1

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
21 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestTHE WOODS
31 March 2014Other causes3.5 acresHoosier National ForestKENTUCKY HOLLOW
17 March 2005Debris and open burning8.0 acresHoosier National ForestMAPLE RIDGE FIRE
18 February 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestBRIARWOOD
8 October 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSOUTH I FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Oolitic: 9 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lawrence Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed Fluorite OccurrenceFluorine-FluoriteOccurrenceFluorite
Baalbeck QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Bedford Ground Limestone PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bedford Quarry and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Number 3 Needmore QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Dark Hollow QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Dickenson PlantLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Diehl Hollow QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Elliott Stone Company, Inc.Limestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Patton Hill0.7 miles22
East Oolitic0.7 miles22
Murdock1.1 miles22
Dark Hollow1.1 miles22
Avoca1.4 miles22
Thornton1.7 miles22
Needmore1.8 miles22
Peerless2.0 miles22

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 OoliticAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2652839The 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 451301. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.