Tarry Park, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47421. It stands on Leatherwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bedford West quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Tarry Park within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:48000
1942 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Bedford West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Bedford West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Bedford West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Tarry Park between 2001 and 2019, burning about 10 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	3

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
21 March 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	OLD 60
16 March 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	CLARK SMITH RD. FIRE
8 October 2019	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SOUTH I FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Tarry Park: 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Recorded
Evans Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Lawrence Co. Hwy. Dept.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Fluorite Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Bedford Ground Limestone Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Bedford Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
V. I. Grissom Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Lawrence 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
Yockey	1.3 miles	17
Hartleyville	1.4 miles	21
Redding	1.9 miles	21
Rabbitville	2.9 miles	17
Englewood	3.0 miles	17
Riverview	3.3 miles	21
Coxton	3.4 miles	21
Woodville	3.4 miles	17

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 Tarry Park	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7686712	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 451540. 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.