Sandford, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Fayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47885. The Survey maps it on the Sandford quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Sandford within Vigo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1947 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
1949 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Sandford quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Sandford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Sandford quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sandford between 2002 and 2007, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
22 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 December 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 December 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 November 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 November 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 November 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Illinois Division of Forestry Resources	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandford in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
September 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandford	$1,000	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Sandford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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
Pine Ridge	3.1 miles	17
West New Goshen	3.2 miles	17
Libertyville	4.0 miles	18
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods	4.1 miles	17
Shirkieville	4.2 miles	17
New Goshen	4.4 miles	17
Liggett	5.2 miles	17
Whitcomb Heights	5.6 miles	17

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 Sandford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7416199	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 442999. 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.