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Cumback, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Veale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47501. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Hook quadrangle.

Cumback within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

1,083 words on this township

History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions ... with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Veale Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Veale Township - 1,083 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cumback in 2005, burning about 3 acres in total. None 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
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
19 March 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cumback in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindCumback$1,000A sixty foot tree was downed at County Road 6900S and 350E due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindCumback-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Glendale3.8 miles14
Sandy Hook3.8 miles14
Hudsonville4.2 miles14
South Washington5.5 miles15
Thomas5.8 miles14
Waco5.9 miles14
Washington7.1 miles15
Corning7.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 433242. 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.