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Whitehall, Indiana

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47404. The Survey maps it on the Whitehall quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Whitehall within Owen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

72 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Whitehall between 2003 and 2013, burning about 44 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning21
Recreation and ceremony21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1

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 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 August 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
31 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whitehall: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, 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
Bloomington QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hinkle Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
W. C. Hargis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Owen County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehall in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2010: 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 1994Tornado (F1)Whitehall$50,000Small tornado briefly touched down at Whitehall destroying one mobile home, damaging one church roof, and downing several trees.
July 2010Flash FloodWhitehall$500Water was reported to be over State Road 45 due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. Cars were pulled over near the Greene and Monroe County line near Stanford.

Every storm recorded in Owen 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
Freeman3.0 miles24
Braysville5.4 miles17
Adel6.0 miles17
Pottersville7.2 miles17
Highets Corner7.5 miles18
New Hope7.6 miles17
Southport8.2 miles16
Vilas8.2 miles17

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 WhitehallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17109033The 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 449746. 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.