BlockSan Jacinto, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Bigger Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47223. The Survey maps it on the San Jacinto quadrangle. It stands 751 feet above sea level.
On record in San Jacinto
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
- Benville Bridgelisted 1996
- Hicklin House and Settlementlisted 2023
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS San Jacinto quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of San Jacinto between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,556 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | PGL FIRE |
| 20 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 34 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | SUMMER PGM FIRE |
| 6 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | RANGE 3 FIRE |
| 28 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | RANGE 5 FIRE |
| 5 April 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | 2100 CENTE |
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | RANGE FIRE |
| 16 April 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 65 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | SHUNK FARM FIRE |
| 9 March 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 182 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | MISS FIRE IN-BOR SPRING 2020 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Jacinto in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2012: 2 tornado, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F3) | San Jacinto | $250,000 | A strong F3 tornado moved across the extreme southeastern part of the county significantly damaging 2 homes and destroying 4 barns. 2 high tension power line towers were toppled as well. The tornado then moved northeast out of the Indianapolis CWA. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | San Jacinto | $20,000 | Twenty trees were downed from Paris Crossing to State Route 7 in the southeast part of the county due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2006 | Tornado (F0) | San Jacinto | $10,000 | A weak tornado touched down in rural southeast Jennings County near the small town of San Jacinto on the evening of 14 August 2006. The tornado tore half of a tin roof off a farm barn, and downed several trees. It also did superficial trim damage to a home, and flipped a swingset and an old trailer. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Ridge | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Grayford | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Butlerville | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Oakdale | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Vernon | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| North Vernon | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Nebraska | 7.7 miles | 10 | |
| Lovett | 7.8 miles | 8 |
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 San Jacinto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7414334 | 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 442956. 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.
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.