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Twelve Points, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47804. It stands on Lost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Terre Haute quadrangle. It stands 489 feet above sea level.

Twelve Points within Vigo County

On record in Twelve Points

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

22 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Twelve Points between 2001 and 2005, burning about 262 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 April 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Twelve Points: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Terre Haute City Eng.StoneProducer
Harlan FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Terre Haute North DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whitlock Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Vigo 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
Duane Yards0.5 miles17
Dewey1.7 miles17
Preston1.7 miles15
Parkview1.7 miles17
Terre Haute2.0 miles17
Terre Town2.1 miles17
Barnhart Town2.2 miles17
Spelterville2.5 miles17

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 Twelve PointsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7857639The 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 445001. 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.