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Christiansburg, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47201. It lies near Wilson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Story quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Christiansburg within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Christiansburg between 1998 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
26 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresHoosier National ForestPOWERLINE
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestWHITE
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use35 acresHoosier National ForestFREEDOM
6 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestBROWN
4 August 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresHoosier National ForestLUTES FIRE
4 July 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestNEBO
9 April 2012Other causesunder an acreHoosier National ForestHOUSTON NORTH
7 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestLUTHERAN LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

14 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christiansburg in 14 storm reports between 2013 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed multiple trees.
July 2013Flash FloodChristiansburg$8,000Two women were rescued from a vehicle trapped in high water on Mount Nebo Road due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. This report was received via Twitter.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in south-central Brown County.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$3,000A 68 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location. Tree branches were snapped, and a trampoline was thrown 100 yards.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$3,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed multiple trees in the area.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$2,000Several large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
February 2026Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$2,000A 64 mph thunderstorm wind gust was recorded with a few tree branches snapped.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg$2,000Multiple tree branches downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2013Flash FloodChristiansburg$2,000Christianburg Road was flooded and impassable, south of Hamilton Creek Road due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. Rapidly flowing water was reported to be going into the backyards of homes near Spurgeons Corner.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg-A 61 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindChristiansburg-A 62 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location.
June 2023HailChristiansburg-Thunderstorm hail as large as half dollars.
July 2023HailChristiansburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Spurgeons Corner1.4 miles21
Becks Grove2.2 miles20
Buffalo (historical)2.3 miles21
Stone Head2.9 miles21
Pikes Peak2.9 miles21
Story3.1 miles21
Lake on the Green4.0 miles18
Elkinsville5.8 miles19

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 ChristiansburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5110638The 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 450775. 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.