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Coalmont, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47845. The Survey maps it on the Jasonville quadrangle. 354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Coalmont within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Coalmont fell from 402 to 354 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
2010402
2020354-48 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Coalmont between 2002 and 2008, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2

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
21 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 July 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 April 2004Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 April 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
24 April 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 March 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coalmont in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCoalmont$75,000Several trees uprooted, a couple snapped, some power lines down from trees, and a little structural damage mainly from trees falling on homes caused by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindCoalmont$8,000Dispatch reported several trees down in Coalmont due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCoalmont$7,000Trees were reported down in the southern portion of Shakamak State Park.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindCoalmont$3,000A tree was reported down on a garage at 1973 E State Route 48. Power lines were also reported down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCoalmont$250An 18-inch tree limb was reported down near Shakamak State Park due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2006HailCoalmont-No property damage was reported.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCoalmont-Trees were downed in Coalmont.
April 2013HailCoalmont-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Buchanan Corner1.5 miles17
Bogle Corner2.7 miles17
Howesville4.6 miles17
New Brunswick5.9 miles18
Brunswick5.9 miles18
Old Hill7.6 miles17
Middlebury7.7 miles16
Clay City8.5 miles16

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 CoalmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5138017The 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 432712. 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.