Stockton, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47427. It stands on Hauser Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coal City quadrangle.

Stockton within Owen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1938 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Coal City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Stockton in 2003, burning about 1 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
Natural	1
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
15 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 November 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coal City	1.4 miles	18
Daggett	1.8 miles	18
Denmark	2.1 miles	16
Hubbell	3.9 miles	18
Hickory Corner	4.7 miles	16
Marion Mills	4.8 miles	13
Arney	5.0 miles	17
Smithville	5.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 444183. 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.