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Wirt, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47250. The Survey maps it on the Clifty Falls quadrangle.

Wirt within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

12 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Wirt between 2002 and 2007, burning about 7 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 July 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 March 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 February 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 February 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Wirt: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Jefferson Plant No 3 Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wirt in 1 storm report in 2017: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2017Thunderstorm WindWirt$25,000The Jefferson County emergency manager reported trees and power lines down on State Road 7 near Dawson Smith Road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Midway0.7 miles10
Wirt Station0.7 miles10
Calloway Station (historical)2.2 miles10
Smyrna2.4 miles10
Middlefork3.2 miles10
Neavill Grove3.6 miles8
Lancaster3.8 miles8
Volga3.8 miles8

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 WirtAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20709398The 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 446203. 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.