Saint Josephs Shrine, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47577. The Survey maps it on the Saint Meinrad quadrangle.

Saint Josephs Shrine within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1900 USGS St Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS St Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS St. Meinrad quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Saint Meinrad quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Saint Josephs Shrine between 2000 and 2004, burning about 8 acres 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
Debris and open burning	4
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
6 August 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	I-64
13 April 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BRISTOW-ST MEINRAD
1 April 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BRISTOW
15 March 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	MT. SINAI
19 February 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	CANDLESTICK FIRE

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
Adyeville	2.2 miles	16
Bristow	4.5 miles	14
Sassafras	5.9 miles	14
Siberia	5.9 miles	14
Kitterman Corners	6.5 miles	14
Ranger	7.8 miles	14
Uniontown	8.3 miles	14
Fosters Ridge	8.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122550106

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 442653. 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.