Burket, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Seward Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46539. The Survey maps it on the Burket quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Burket within Kosciusko County

Population over time

2 figures

Burket fell from 195 to 123 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	195
2020	123	-72 (-37%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Burket quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

846 words on this township

Biographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Seward Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Seward Township - 846 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Burket between 2002 and 2003, burning about 7 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 April 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kosciusko County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burket in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
August 2001	Lightning	Burket	$50,000	Lightning struck a house on CR 900S. When the lightning bolt hit the house items were knocked off the wall and electrical sockets were blown out of the wall. Damage to the residence was estimated at $50,000.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Burket	-	Significant tree damage.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Burket	-	Multiple trees down across town.
August 2020	Tornado (EF0)	Burket	-	A tornado touched down just west of the intersection of South County Road 700 North and South Beaver Dam Road, causing damage to trees to properties on either side of that intersection, with debris left on the roadway. A local fire chief witnessed the tornado lift over two structures and a grain bin with no noted damage. The tornado then touched down just east of the intersection in a mature corn field where it flattened a 100 to 150 foot circle in the corn, lifted briefly and then touched down again, causing the same type of damage before lifting again. The funnel attempted to touch down a third time but dissipated near a row of trees. Debris was still visible in the air. Maximum winds were estimated at 80 mph.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Burket	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees were blown down.
November 2013	Tornado (EF1)	Burket	-	A survey of damage east of Mentone by a NWS Survey team revealed that a EF1 tornado produced damage along a roughly 1 mile path. Touchdown occurred southwest of the intersection of State Route 25 and County Road 800 West with the tornado quickly moving northeast and impacting a residence and barn on the southeast corner of the same intersection. A few small hardwood trees were snapped with the adjacent residence suffering minor shingle damage. An adjacent barn was shifted off its foundation with the north facing doors and wall buckled. As the tornado crossed State Route 25 it clipped a residence, causing roughly 75 percent of the roof and trusses to be ripped off and thrown to the north northwest about 250 yards. Power poles on the north side of the road were also blown down. As the tornado continued northeast it cause widespread tree damage in a wooded area, as well as minor structural damage to a home along South Tinkey Road. The tornado lifted shortly after this point, southeast of the intersection of Tinkey and Shilling Roads. Maximum wind speeds with the tornado are estimated at 100 mph.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burket	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kosciusko 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
Palestine	1.9 miles	11
Sevastopol	3.2 miles	11
Mentone	3.7 miles	11
Claypool	5.0 miles	11
Beaver Dam	5.3 miles	11
Lowman Corner	6.4 miles	11
Silver Lake	7.0 miles	10
Atwood	7.3 miles	11

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 Burket	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1872336	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 431833. 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.