Summit, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stockton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47441. The Survey maps it on the Linton quadrangle. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Summit within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1940 USGS Linton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Linton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
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 Linton quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

794 words on this township

Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Stockton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Stockton Township - 794 words.

Fires near this place

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 2002 and 2007, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
11 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 April 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 February 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
White Rose	1.2 miles	19
Victoria	1.6 miles	19
Linton	1.8 miles	19
Hoosier	2.6 miles	19
Ellis	2.6 miles	19
Island City	3.1 miles	19
Sponsler	3.6 miles	19
Vicksburg	4.1 miles	19

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 Summit	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637739	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 444390. 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.