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Curby, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jennings Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47118. The Survey maps it on the English quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Curby within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Curby between 1999 and 2012, burning about 177 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism157 acresHoosier National ForestABC MISCELLANEOUS
8 July 2012Naturalunder an acreHoosier National ForestSNAG FIRE
15 July 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoosier National ForestRIDDLE
9 April 2001Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresHoosier National ForestSENNS RD.
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestHAMMOND
29 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestARNOLD BROWN
25 March 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresHoosier National ForestSKIDDER FIRE
17 March 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestRIDDLE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Curby: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cape Sandy Quarry #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curby in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCurby2 hurt, $5,000Power lines were blown on to Interstate 64 at Carefree, closing the interstate for a time.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCurby$5,000An attached carport had half of its roof torn off, and at least 4 large trees in the front and side yards had limbs around 6 inches in diameter broken off and lying on the ground.
March 2025HailCurby-There was one inch hail near Curby.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCurby-Estimated 70 mph winds along leading edge of a squall line.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCurby-A tree was blown down near Bogard Hollow Rd. south of English.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCurby-Power lines were downed in Carefree.
August 2007HailCurby-no account filed
April 2006HailCurby-no account filed
April 2006Thunderstorm WindCurby-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindCurby-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Pilot Knob1.5 miles14
Switzer Crossroads2.5 miles14
Magnolia2.8 miles17
Carefree2.8 miles14
Riddle3.8 miles14
Temple4.4 miles14
Grantsburg4.9 miles14
English5.6 miles14

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 CurbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5194656The 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 433254. 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.