BlockScalesville, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lane Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47637. The Survey maps it on the Folsomville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1900 USGS De Gonia Springs quadrangle1:62500
- 1902 USGS Degonia Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Folsomville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Scalesville between 2005 and 2006, burning about 365 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | MALLETT |
| 28 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 356 acres | Indiana Division of Forestry | INTERLAKE MINE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jockey | 2.8 miles | 18 | |
| Dickeyville | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Hemenway | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Lynnville | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| Eby | 5.1 miles | 21 | |
| Selvin | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Folsomville | 5.5 miles | 18 | |
| Graham Valley | 5.8 miles | 21 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 443056. 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.