BlockStone Head, Indiana
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47448. It stands on Pleasant Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level.
On record in Stone Head
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1942 USGS Franklin quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1998 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
10 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Stone Head between 1999 and 2018, burning about 68 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | WHITE |
| 8 August 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 acres | Hoosier National Forest | FREEDOM |
| 12 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Hoosier National Forest | POPLAR GROVE |
| 4 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Hoosier National Forest | CORNER FIRE |
| 15 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | 135 CAMPFIRE |
| 5 February 2017 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Hoosier National Forest | HARRIS |
| 26 December 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | BERRY RIDGE |
| 4 November 2001 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | GREATHOUSE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone Head in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Head | $3,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed three trees onto Indiana Route 135 about 1 mile north of Van Buren Elementary School. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone Head | $1,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed 3 to 5 inch diameter tree branches. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pikes Peak | 0.9 miles | 21 | |
| Lake on the Green | 2.3 miles | 18 | |
| Christiansburg | 2.9 miles | 21 | |
| Story | 3.6 miles | 21 | |
| Camp Roberts | 3.8 miles | 21 | |
| Mount Liberty | 4.0 miles | 21 | |
| Spurgeons Corner | 4.1 miles | 21 | |
| Becks Grove | 4.2 miles | 20 |
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 Stone Head | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7618949 | The 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 444206. 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.
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.