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Colburn, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47905. It stands on Little Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Delphi quadrangle. 164 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Colburn within Tippecanoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Colburn fell from 193 to 164 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
2010193
2020164-29 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Colburn between 2007 and 2008, 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 May 2007Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tippecanoe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Colburn: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Vianco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colburn in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindColburn$3,000Several trees were downed and an old barn sustained partial roof damage.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindColburn$1,000A tree was downed blocking County Road 1000 East, just south of State Route 25, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindColburn-A measured thunderstorm wind gust of 80 mph was observed in this location. Sustained winds were measured at 59 mph at the intersection of State Route 25 North and County Road 900 North.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindColburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Americus2.4 miles9
Buck Creek3.3 miles13
Heath4.1 miles9
Delp5.5 miles13
Battle Ground6.9 miles9
Pettit7.0 miles9
Monitor7.2 miles13
Ash Grove7.4 miles9

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 ColburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q508260The 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 432745. 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.