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Vaughan, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47712. The Survey maps it on the West Franklin quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Vaughan within Vanderburgh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

In the county-history sources

5,513 words on this township

History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, from Earliest Times to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Etc, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 5,513 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Vaughan between 2008 and 2010, burning about 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 November 2008Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOTTONWOOD FIRE
24 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMIDNIGHT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Vaughan: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Henderson County Sand CompanySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Henderson PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Vanderburgh County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vaughan in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2025FloodVaughan-Minor flooding of agricultural bottomland and several county roads occurred in the southwest part of the county near Henderson Kentucky.

Every storm recorded in Vanderburgh 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
Cypress0.9 miles16
Rahm2.4 miles18
Mud Center3.8 miles16
Red Bank4.8 miles16
Evansville6.4 miles18
Belknap6.4 miles16
Harwood7.6 miles18
Kasson8.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q26902767The 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 445235. 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.

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.