West New Goshen, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47885. The Survey maps it on the New Goshen quadrangle.

West New Goshen within Vigo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1950 USGS New Goshen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS New Goshen quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of West New Goshen between 2002 and 2003, burning about 5 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/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
31 March 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
7 December 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 November 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 November 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo 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 New Goshen: 1 producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Clinton Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Vigo 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
Pine Ridge	0.8 miles	17
New Goshen	1.2 miles	17
Shirkieville	2.2 miles	17
Libertyville	3.0 miles	18
Tecumseh	3.2 miles	17
Sandford	3.2 miles	18
Shepardsville	3.9 miles	17
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods	4.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 446684. 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.