BlockVelpen, Indiana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47590. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Velpen quadrangle. It stands 492 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Velpen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Velpen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Velpen in 2002, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Hoosier National Forest | PIKE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Velpen in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 flash 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2020 | Flash Flood | Velpen | - | A small creek that flows into Cup Creek within a half mile of the Patoka River overflowed its banks. A county road was flooded, along with some fields. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Velpen | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hartwell Junction | 2.1 miles | 19 | |
| White Sulphur Springs | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Pikeville | 2.4 miles | 16 | |
| Survant | 3.1 miles | 19 | |
| Whiteoak | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Hartwell | 4.7 miles | 19 | |
| Augusta | 5.0 miles | 19 | |
| Fritz Corner | 5.0 miles | 19 |
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 Velpen | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7919322 | 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 445242. 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.