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Riceville, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Patoka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47513. The Survey maps it on the Birdseye quadrangle.

Riceville within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Riceville between 1994 and 2014, burning about 125 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 were 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 burning15
Arson/incendiarism10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
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
8 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoosier National ForestBAILER
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoosier National ForestKEMP FIRE
21 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresHoosier National ForestHASKINS
18 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestDOOLITTLE MILLS
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestANDERSON VALLEY
27 June 2001Naturalunder an acreHoosier National ForestLIGHTNING STRIKE
3 April 2007Debris and open burning4.2 acresHoosier National ForestREDBUD FIRE
23 April 2001Smoking3.0 acresHoosier National ForestGOVERNOR'S TRACE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Riceville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Eckerty MineStoneProducer
Eckerty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riceville in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017Flash FloodRiceville-State officials reported high water across State Road 64 just east of Riceville Road.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindRiceville-Local Emergency Management reported trees down along Indiana State Highway 64 near its intersection with Hardscrabble Road.

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Eckerty2.9 miles13
Wickliffe3.3 miles13
Taswell5.6 miles13
Mifflin6.8 miles13
Tunnel Hill8.6 miles13
Brownstown9.5 miles15
West Fork9.7 miles14
Grantsburg10.7 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q18390295The 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 451388. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.