Sundown Manor, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46158. It stands on East Fork White Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mooresville West quadrangle.

Sundown Manor within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Mooresville West quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mooresville West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Sundown Manor in 2005, burning under an 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 October 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Sundown Manor: 10 producers, 3 past producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gen Shale Prdts Brick Plnt/Brooklyn	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Indiana Tile Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Adams Pit	Clay	Producer
Bethany Park Clay & Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Brooklyn	Clay	Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick Pit	Clay	Producer
Central Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Groninger Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hoosier Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan 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
Brookmoor	1.1 miles	14
Ridgewood	1.7 miles	14
Mooresville	2.0 miles	14
Country Manor Estates	2.2 miles	14
Young	2.8 miles	14
Lake Hart	3.1 miles	14
Brooklyn	3.1 miles	14
Gasburg	3.2 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 444409. 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.