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.
Population over time
2 figuresBuck 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 207 | |
| 2020 | 182 | -25 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lafayette East quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Lafayette East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
1 since 2007Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 May 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buck Creek | $15,000 | Tree limbs, trees, and power lines downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts in in the nearby area. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Buck Creek | $15,000 | An 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buck Creek | $2,000 | A 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 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buck Creek | $100 | High thunderstorm winds were observed in this location. Some tree limb debris was seen along with street signs blowing. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buck Creek | - | Three large trees were uprooted. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Buck Creek | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buck Creek | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Buck Creek | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Buck Creek | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heath | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Delp | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Americus | 2.6 miles | 9 | |
| Colburn | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Battle Ground | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Monitor | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Birmingham | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Meadowbrook | 5.3 miles | 13 |
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 Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4982831 | 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 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.





