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Pond Creek Mills, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47557. The Survey maps it on the Monroe City quadrangle.

Pond Creek Mills within Knox 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Pond Creek Mills in 2006, burning about 3 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
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
13 April 2006Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Five Points4.0 miles13
Willis4.1 miles13
Monroe City4.4 miles13
Wheatland6.0 miles14
Ridgleville7.5 miles14
Verne8.6 miles18
Iona10.0 miles14
Fritchton10.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452179. 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.