Tocsin, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46731. The Survey maps it on the Preble quadrangle.

Tocsin within Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Preble quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tocsin between 2002 and 2004, 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	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 November 2004	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wells County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tocsin in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Tocsin	$10,000	County officials reported trees and power lines down in the area.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Tocsin	-	A trained spotter reported damage to roof shingles on a home near County Road 700 N and 600 E, as well as nearby crop damage.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Tocsin	-	The public reported a large tree limb, approximately one foot in diameter, was blown down.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tocsin	-	A trained spotter reported large limbs and trees down north of Tocsin.
March 2016	Hail	Tocsin	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Tocsin	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wells 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
Kingsland	3.6 miles	10
Curryville	3.6 miles	10
Craigville	3.7 miles	10
Greenwood	3.7 miles	10
Ossian	4.6 miles	10
North Oaks	5.0 miles	10
Murray	5.5 miles	10
Toll Gate Heights	5.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 444793. 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.