Saint Croix, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oil Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47576. The Survey maps it on the Branchville quadrangle. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Saint Croix within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Branchville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Branchville quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

45 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Saint Croix between 1993 and 2019, burning about 97 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning	16
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	MP76
6 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	REST AREA - NORTH
5 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	HEMLOCK
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	DOOLITTLE MILLS
4 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	I-64
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Hoosier National Forest	KEMP FIRE
21 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Hoosier National Forest	HASKINS
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	DOOLITTLE MILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
Doolittle Mills	2.1 miles	13
Celina	2.8 miles	14
Uniontown	3.9 miles	14
Fosters Ridge	4.1 miles	14
Branchville	4.2 miles	14
Apalona	5.4 miles	14
Oriole	5.8 miles	14
Kitterman Corners	5.9 miles	14

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 Saint Croix	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7587665	The 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 451415. 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.