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Waymansville, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47201. The Survey maps it on the Waymansville quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Waymansville within Bartholomew County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Waymansville between 1999 and 2018, burning about 70 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony1

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 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestLUTHERAN LAKE
7 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresHoosier National ForestMT HEALTHY
31 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestOGALA 2
31 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestLEHMAN
27 March 2003Arson/incendiarism10 acresHoosier National ForestCALLAHAM FIRE
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestOGOLA
22 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSPRAYTOWN FIRE
5 February 2017Debris and open burning17 acresHoosier National ForestHARRIS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartholomew County

Storms near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waymansville in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1994Thunderstorm WindWaymansville$500,000Four miles north of Columbus a highway sign was blown down. At Waymansville several trailers were damaged, and 9 homes sustained roof damage. Also at Waymansville a carport was destroyed at a business, one barn was heavily damaged, and 3 other barns sustained minor damage.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindWaymansville$500Tree limbs blown down.
July 2023HailWaymansville-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWaymansville-no account filed
May 1996HailWaymansville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bartholomew 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
Mount Healthy1.2 miles20
Ogilville4.6 miles18
North Ogilville5.1 miles18
Grandview Lake6.2 miles18
Rosstown6.8 miles13
Bethany7.7 miles18
Jonesville8.1 miles13
Harrison Lake8.4 miles18

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 WaymansvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7975965The 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 451610. 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.