BlockBeaver Dam, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46910. The Survey maps it on the Akron quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Akron quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,802 words on this townshipBiographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Franklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Li July, 1844, a postofficc was established at the house of Samuel Rickel with that gentleman as postmaster. The office was given the name of -'Beaver Dam" by Miss Julia Burns. Mr. Rickel served as postmaster Viutil the Republican administration in 1860, when tliat time honored Democrat was shelved and Jonathan Weaver was appointed.
Passage source: Biographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Beaver Dam in 2003, burning about 6 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/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver Dam in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 4 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Dam | - | Emergency management officials reported extensive tree damage in and around the Silver Lake and Beaver Dam Lake area. A weak circulation was noted on radar in the area, but damage was laid out in a southeasterly direction, suggesting a microburst of 70 to 80 mph impacted the area. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Dam | - | Local officials reported a tree was blown down on South County Road 675 West, between Beaver Dam and Silver Lake. |
| November 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Dam | - | Local media reported a few trees were blown down near Beaver Dam Lake. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Dam | - | POWER LINES DOWN. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowman Corner | 1.1 miles | 11 | |
| Sevastopol | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Burket | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Mentone | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Silver Lake | 6.5 miles | 10 | |
| Palestine | 7.2 miles | 11 | |
| Claypool | 7.6 miles | 11 | |
| Packerton | 11.6 miles | 10 |
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 Beaver Dam | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4878049 | The 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 430677. 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.
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.