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Reed Station, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Yorktown town. It lies in ZIP code area 47304. It stands on Reed Run. The Survey maps it on the Gilman quadrangle.

Reed Station within Delaware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 14 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Reed Station in 2004, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 October 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Reed Station: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Buchanon Flagstones Co.LimestoneLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Riddle Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Delaware 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
Cammack1.4 miles17
Bethel2.6 miles13
Yorktown3.1 miles17
West Muncie3.6 miles17
Andersonville4.6 miles17
Anthony6.1 miles13
Middletown Park6.1 miles17
Daleville6.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 441859. 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.