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Travisville, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46714. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle.

Travisville within Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Travisville between 2002 and 2004, burning about 9 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 burning2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 June 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 June 2004Smokingunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 June 2004Smokingunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 April 2003Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 October 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 October 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wells County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Travisville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Wells Co. Hwy. DeptStoneProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wellsburg1.9 miles11
Poneto2.5 miles11
Greenville2.8 miles11
Bluffton3.8 miles11
Liberty Center3.9 miles9
Reiffsburg3.9 miles11
Toll Gate Heights5.0 miles10
North Oaks6.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 444860. 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.