Clear Creek, Indiana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

• Stipp-Bender Farmlisted 2023

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.

• 1908 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:62500
• 1908 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:48000
• 1910 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
• 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Clear Creek quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Clear Creek quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
• 1999 USGS Clear Creek quadrangle1:24000

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Perry Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Clear Creek between 2003 and 2008, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Broadview
• Sunny Slopes
• Victor
• Ridgemede
• Bloomington
• Elwren

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Clear Creek: 12 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clear Creek in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Monroe County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 449639. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.