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Rosewood, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Taylor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47117. It stands on Macauley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kosmosdale quadrangle.

Rosewood within Harrison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Rosewood between 1997 and 2016, burning about 512 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2

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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOINTE BLVD FIRE
3 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWINDING CREEK FIRE
3 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEAVERS RUN FIRE
11 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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 Rosewood: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Kosmos Cement DivisionStoneProducer
Kosmosdale PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosewood in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindRosewood-Dispatch reported tree damage on State Road 111 near Rosewood.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Happy Hollow1.1 miles20
Macedonia2.0 miles20
Fishtown2.3 miles20
Buena Vista3.1 miles20
Evans Landing3.8 miles20
New Boston5.1 miles16
Sugar Grove5.6 miles20
Rehoboth5.8 miles20

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 RosewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18391177The 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 442313. 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.