Park View Heights, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46970. The Survey maps it on the Bunker Hill quadrangle.

Park View Heights within Miami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1951 USGS Bunker Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Bunker Hill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Park View Heights between 2003 and 2005, burning about 2 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/undetermined	2
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
6 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 February 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Park View Heights: 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Kickapoo Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Miami Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
Precision Ceramics Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Plant
Comersford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kickapoo Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kratzer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami 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
South Peru	0.5 miles	13
Peru	1.3 miles	13
Oakdale	1.9 miles	13
Ridgeview	1.9 miles	13
Missisinewa (historical)	2.3 miles	13
Flora	2.7 miles	13
Wells	3.3 miles	13
Oakley	3.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 440881. 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.