Pumpkin Center, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Northeast Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47452. It stands on Stampers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Livonia quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Pumpkin Center within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Livonia quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Livonia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Pumpkin Center between 2004 and 2018, burning about 80 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	2
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
12 April 2018	Debris and open burning	77 acres	Hoosier National Forest	PIPELINE
28 February 2004	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BROMMER
27 February 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	COUNTY ROAD 350
12 November 2005	Smoking	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	MILLERSBURG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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
Bromer	1.5 miles	11
Syria	2.0 miles	14
Mahan Crossing	2.2 miles	11
Stampers Creek	2.4 miles	14
Millersburg	2.7 miles	11
Lost River	4.8 miles	14
Woodlawn Grove	5.0 miles	14
Chambersburg	5.1 miles	14

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 Pumpkin Center	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197856	The 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 451371. 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.