Volga, Indiana

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Smyrna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47250. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Volga quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Volga within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Volga quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000

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 Volga between 2002 and 2005, burning about 2 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 burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
2 July 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 February 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 December 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 December 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 October 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Volga: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jefferson Plant No 3 Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Volga in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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
March 2024	Hail	Volga	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Neavill Grove	0.3 miles	8
Smyrna	2.0 miles	10
Wakefield	2.2 miles	8
Lancaster	3.3 miles	8
Kent	3.4 miles	9
Midway	3.7 miles	10
Wirt	3.8 miles	10
Antioch Grange	4.1 miles	17

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 Volga	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7940160	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 445316. 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.