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Whiteoak, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47598. The Survey maps it on the Winslow quadrangle.

Whiteoak within Pike 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Whiteoak in 2006, burning about 365 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/undetermined1

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
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined365 acresIndiana Division of ForestryWINSLOW SPOILS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Survant2.5 miles19
Cato2.8 miles17
White Sulphur Springs3.3 miles17
Hartwell Junction3.4 miles19
Winslow4.0 miles17
Otwell4.2 miles17
Velpen4.4 miles16
Campbelltown5.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 445976. 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.