BlockRanger, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Anderson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47586. It stands on Little Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gatchel quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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 Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Gatchel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Gatchel quadrangle1:24000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
32 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Ranger between 1994 and 2018, burning about 62 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 | 21 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | POISON CREEK |
| 27 September 2004 | Debris and open burning | 3.6 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SULPHUR VALLEY |
| 21 August 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | TIPSAW |
| 28 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SAGEBRUSH |
| 2 July 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | CHERRY |
| 7 April 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | CENTRAL PERRY |
| 29 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | ALBANY ROAD |
| 17 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | SADDLE LAKE FIRE |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451379. 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.