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Allendale, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Honey Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47802. It stands on Little Honey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Terre Haute quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Allendale within Vigo County

On record in Allendale

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Allendale between 2003 and 2005, burning about 2 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/undetermined2
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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 February 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

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 Allendale: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pyramid Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
S. and G. Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Terre Haute SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this place

4 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allendale in 4 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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 2013Thunderstorm WindAllendale$3,000Trees were reported down near the intersection of US Highway 41 and Carlisle Street due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Allendale$2,000The tornado touchdown occurred along East Curry Road near Hultz Road, about five miles south of Terre Haute. The tornado was observed by a storm spotter and caused damage to several trees. It was rated an EF-0 with associated winds around 80 mph.
July 2020HailAllendale-no account filed
March 2017HailAllendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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
Woodgate0.7 miles17
Southwood0.8 miles17
Spring Hill1.7 miles17
Youngstown2.2 miles15
Keller4.4 miles16
Prairieton4.4 miles15
Lakewood5.0 miles18
Riley5.1 miles18

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 AllendaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4731985The 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 430096. 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.