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Sanders, Indiana

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47401. The Survey maps it on the Clear Creek quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Sanders within Monroe County

On record in Sanders

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

In the county-history sources

8,019 words on this township

1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perry Township - 8,019 words.

Fires near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sanders between 1998 and 2018, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1

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
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
1 July 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 June 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 1998Debris and open burning22 acresHoosier National ForestKNIGHT RIDGE
4 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestTRAILER
29 April 2018Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHoosier National ForestCAMPSITE 47

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sanders: 12 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General. 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
Cleveland Stone Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
4-R QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Acme QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Adams QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Ashtone MillLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Beck QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Buffalo QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Independent Limestone CompanyLimestone, DimensionProducer
Maple Hill QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Monarch QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanders in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 1 hail, 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 2019Thunderstorm WindSanders$40,000A pole barn was destroyed, a dump truck tipped over, and numerous large trees were snapped and uprooted due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2010HailSanders-Golf ball sized hail fell at Lakeview Elementary School.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Smithville0.7 miles27
Handy1.5 miles24
Clear Creek2.5 miles27
Sunny Slopes3.7 miles25
Victor3.8 miles27
Broadview4.3 miles25
Garden Acres4.6 miles27
Harrodsburg4.9 miles27

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 SandersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7416133The 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 442994. 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.