Redding, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47446. It lies near Rariden Hill. The Survey maps it on the Bedford West quadrangle.

Redding within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:48000
1942 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bedford West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Bedford West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Bedford West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Redding between 2001 and 2019, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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	5
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
3 July 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	OLD HOME PLACE
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	FIBERTECH
9 March 2001	Smoking	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SIXTY
21 March 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	OLD 60
18 March 2009	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	COZY FIRE
16 March 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	GEORGIA
16 March 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	CLARK SMITH RD. FIRE
8 October 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SOUTH I FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Redding: 2 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Evans Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
V. I. Grissom Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Yockey	1.1 miles	17
Woodville	1.6 miles	17
Rabbitville	1.6 miles	17
Tarry Park	1.9 miles	21
Hartleyville	2.2 miles	21
Mitchell	3.3 miles	17
Bryantsville	3.7 miles	21
Englewood	4.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451776. 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.