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Willow Valley, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Halbert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47581. The Survey maps it on the Huron quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Willow Valley within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Willow Valley between 2001 and 2020, burning about 67 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
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
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
1 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestTOLBERT FIRE
30 March 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoosier National ForestSUGAR RIDGE FIRE
24 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresHoosier National ForestSCARLET
21 March 2016Smoking2.6 acresHoosier National ForestKINGS RIDGE
14 March 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHoosier National ForestMILL ROAD
11 March 2014Debris and open burning40 acresHoosier National ForestCOUNTY FARM
18 February 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestBONDS/POND FIRE
19 November 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana Division of Forestry101 KINGS RIDGE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 129 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 129 workings within 5 miles of Willow Valley: 102 occurrences, 16 prospects, 7 producers, 4 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Aluminum, Flagstone. 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
Johnson QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Wilson Halloysite DepositAluminumPast Producer
Wilson Halloysite DepositAluminumPast Producer
National Gypsum Co. Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1951, 1955
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
U.S. Gypsum Co. Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1951, 1955
United States Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
United States Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Opening No. 12IronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Martin 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
Ironton3.7 miles15
Shoals4.2 miles15
Shoals Overlook4.6 miles15
Dover Hill4.9 miles15
Lacy5.1 miles15
Natchez5.3 miles13
Pleasant Valley6.1 miles15
Cale7.2 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q8022379The 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 451635. 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.