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Rabbitville, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47446. The Survey maps it on the Bedford East quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Rabbitville within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Rabbitville between 2001 and 2020, burning about 22 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 burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1

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
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresHoosier National ForestFIBERTECH
9 March 2001Smoking4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSIXTY
21 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestOLD 60
16 March 2005Debris and open burning5.0 acresHoosier National ForestCLARK SMITH RD. FIRE
19 November 2020Debris and open burning4.5 acresIndiana Division of ForestryFLEENOR ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rabbitville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Evans QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
V. I. Grissom QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Woodville1.1 miles17
Redding1.6 miles21
Yockey1.7 miles17
Mitchell2.5 miles17
Tarry Park2.9 miles21
Spring Mill Village3.4 miles17
Hartleyville3.8 miles21
Buddha3.9 miles17

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 RabbitvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7278648The 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 441711. 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.