BlockSandy Hook, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Veale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47501. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Hook quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1945 USGS Sandy Hook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sandy Hook quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,083 words on this townshipHistory of Daviess County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions ... with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Veale Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Veale Township - 1,083 words.
Fires near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sandy Hook in 2006, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 April 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Cumback | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| South Washington | 5.0 miles | 15 | |
| Maysville | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Washington | 6.7 miles | 15 | |
| Glendale | 7.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hudsonville | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Jordan | 8.3 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 443012. 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.