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Buck Creek, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47905. The Survey maps it on the Lafayette East quadrangle. 182 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Buck Creek within Tippecanoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Buck Creek fell from 207 to 182 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010207
2020182-25 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Buck Creek in 2007, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural1

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
15 May 2007Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buck Creek in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek$15,000Tree limbs, trees, and power lines downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts in in the nearby area.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Buck Creek$15,000An EF-0 tornado touched down south of Buck Creek in Tippecanoe county. A barn sustained damage due to this tornado, with a portion of its roof missing and some of the siding ripped off.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek$2,000A tree was downed near the Buck Creek Volunteer Fire Department due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Tree damage was also reported in Colburn, nearby Buck Creek.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek$100High thunderstorm winds were observed in this location. Some tree limb debris was seen along with street signs blowing.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-Three large trees were uprooted.
May 2011HailBuck Creek-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-no account filed
June 1999HailBuck Creek-no account filed
September 1999Thunderstorm WindBuck Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Heath2.4 miles9
Delp2.5 miles13
Americus2.6 miles9
Colburn3.3 miles9
Battle Ground4.5 miles9
Monitor4.7 miles13
Birmingham5.0 miles13
Meadowbrook5.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Buck CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4982831The 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 449626. 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.