Shadeland, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46952. The Survey maps it on the Van Buren quadrangle.

Shadeland within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

10,581 words on this township

History of Grant County, Indiana, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 10,581 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shadeland in 2007, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning	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
18 June 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant 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
Hanfield	1.6 miles	11
Landess	2.6 miles	11
Shady Hills	3.6 miles	12
Marion	4.1 miles	12
Lake Wood	4.2 miles	11
Dooville	4.4 miles	11
Fox	5.1 miles	12
Westwood Square	5.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 443238. 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.