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Concord, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Lauramie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47909. It stands on East Branch Wea Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stockwell quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Concord within Tippecanoe County

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

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Concord between 2004 and 2005, burning about 21 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 September 2004Natural1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 April 2004Arson/incendiarism15 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 November 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 October 2005Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresIndiana 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 Concord: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Fairfield PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concord in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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
November 2013Tornado (EF1)Concord$10,000At 1456EST, this EF-1 tornado touched down 3 miles west of Stockwell. The tornado caused damage to an old barn, scattering some debris. The tornado continued along a northeast path where in varied in strength at times. It eventually caused considerable damage to a second barn as well as siding and window damage to a house. Debris was scattered northeasterly across a field for over another mile. This tornado lifted 3 miles north of Stockwell at 1500EST.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindConcord$1,000Trees and power lines were downed.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindConcord$1,000no account filed
July 2005Thunderstorm WindConcord-Trees were blown down.
May 2024HailConcord-no account filed
April 2015HailConcord-no account filed
June 2010HailConcord-no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindConcord-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
Gladens Corner2.4 miles9
North Crane3.4 miles9
Stockwell3.6 miles9
South Raub4.1 miles9
Romney4.7 miles9
Corwin5.0 miles9
Monroe5.4 miles10
Wyandot5.9 miles10

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 ConcordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688329The 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 432847. 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.