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Scott City, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairbanks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47879. It stands on Curry Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Shelburn quadrangle. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Scott City within Sullivan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Scott City between 2001 and 2005, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
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
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 May 2004Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 March 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Scott City: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scott City in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 flood. 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
September 2012FloodScott City$500One foot of water was over Highway 63, one mile south of State Route 48, due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
November 2025HailScott City-no account filed
April 2011HailScott City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Fairbanks3.5 miles19
Curryville3.9 miles18
Shelburn3.9 miles18
Dodds Bridge4.0 miles19
Standard4.0 miles18
Massacre4.0 miles18
Campbell Corner4.6 miles18
East Shelburn4.7 miles18

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 Scott CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7436134The 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 443144. 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.