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West Baden Springs, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1993. It stands in French Lick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47469. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the French Lick quadrangle. 541 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

West Baden Springs within Orange County

On record in West Baden Springs

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

West Baden Springs fell from 574 to 541 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010574
2020541-33 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of West Baden Springs between 1995 and 2019, burning about 106 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
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHoosier National Forest56 S CURVE
9 April 2005Recreation and ceremony10 acresHoosier National ForestROLAND FIRE
27 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresHoosier National ForestCASINO
2 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHoosier National ForestROLAND POWER FIRE
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresHoosier National ForestSTEVENS SAWMILL
28 March 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestGOLF BALL
24 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BADEN RESTART
24 March 1995Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSPRINGS VALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange 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 West Baden Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cave Quarries, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Orange 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
Prospect0.9 miles15
French Lick1.2 miles15
Abydel2.7 miles15
Roland4.3 miles13
Turleys4.8 miles15
Orangeville5.4 miles14
Norton6.2 miles13
Braxtons Siding6.5 miles14

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 West Baden SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2799225The 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 451617. 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.