BlockWheeling, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47649. The Survey maps it on the Union quadrangle. It stands 461 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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 Petersburg 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 Union quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
2,885 words on this townshipHistory of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Joseph Decker, Jacob Decker and Luke Decker, brothers, came to the territory now embraced in Washington Township about or before 1800, and established a ferry across the White River at a point where Buena Vista now stands, known as Decker's ferry. This ferry and the Severns' ferry across the Patoka were the first in the county, and were in operation long before this was a county, under the authority of Knox County.
Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.
The first death we have any account of in this township was a man by the name of McCoy. He died on a keel-boat and was buried on Military Donation No. 5, where cemetery is located, southeast of where Buena Vista now stands. The priority of the first graveyard in this township lics between this one and one located on the old Robert Falls land, Military Dona. tion 107. The first postoftice in this township was established in, 1858, at Buena Vista and was called "West Buena Vista." John Cunningham was postmaster. Other offices were located in the township, one at Kirksville, now Wheeling, and one on the route between Hazleton in White River Township and Petersburg in Pike County, but all are now abandoned, noi a postofiice remaining in the township.
Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wheeling between 1999 and 2016, burning about 190 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | OATSVILLE FIRE |
| 29 April 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 November 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | HUGHES FIRE |
| 5 November 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | HUGE TRACT |
| 18 November 1999 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | LANGFORD |
| 9 October 2001 | Smoking | 80 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | BRITTINGHA |
| 28 October 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | OATSVILLE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2024Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wheeling in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wheeling | $15,000 | Northeast of Wheeling, thunderstorm winds caused major loss of roof paneling to a farm building along with tree damage. Damage was indicative of straight-line winds. |
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.
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 Wheeling | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7992290 | 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 445894. 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.