Branchville, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oil Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47514. It stands on Esarey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Branchville quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Branchville within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Branchville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Branchville quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Branchville between 1995 and 2016, burning about 72 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
24 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	NORTH FACE
24 August 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	ST.CROIX
21 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	TIPSAW
16 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	66 LIGHTNING
17 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	QUARRY
17 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	LIBERTY
7 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	CELINA GATEHOUSE
21 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	EATON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Branchville in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
April 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Branchville	$5,000	The tornado first touched down just east of Lake Celina where one tree was uprooted and others were snapped. The tornado then continued east across IN-37 where it uprooted and snapped several dozen trees along Old IN-37. The damage continued east towards Ottoman Road where a carport was destroyed, along with additional trees that were snapped and uprooted. From there, the tornado took a jog to the northeast across Orchid and St. Croix Roads where it caused substantial tree damage, uprooting and/or snapping trunks 15-20 feet high on approximately 100 trees. The tornado then lifted just east of Saint Croix Road.
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Branchville	-	Two trees were blown over roads north of Branchville.
June 2003	Flash Flood	Branchville	-	Branchville Road near Branchville was covered by deep water and was impassable.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Branchville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bandon	2.1 miles	14
Celina	2.4 miles	14
Apalona	2.9 miles	14
Oriole	4.0 miles	14
Leopold	4.1 miles	16
Saint Croix	4.2 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	4.4 miles	16
Terry	6.0 miles	14

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 Branchville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4956453	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 450702. 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.