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Santa Fe, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47579. The Survey maps it on the Santa Claus quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Santa Fe within Spencer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Santa Fe in 2018, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
13 April 2018Naturalunder an acreLincoln Boyhood National MemorialDRACH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spencer 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
Santa Claus0.6 miles15
Kennedy2.3 miles15
Lamar3.0 miles15
Clay City3.0 miles15
Buffaloville3.1 miles15
Mariah Hill3.7 miles14
Fulda3.9 miles15
Lincoln City4.8 miles15

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 Santa FeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197874The 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 443022. 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.