Dugger, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47848. The Survey maps it on the Dugger quadrangle. 797 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDugger fell from 920 to 797 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 920 | |
| 2020 | 797 | -123 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Dugger quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Dugger quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Dugger quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
10 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dugger between 2001 and 2007, burning about 17 acres in total. None 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 ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 11 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 30 March 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 March 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dugger in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dugger | $1,000 | A tree was down blocking a road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Dugger | - | This report was relayed from NWSChat. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dugger | - | A 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dugger | - | A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph was observed in Dugger. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dugger | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 75 mph was estimated in Dugger. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dugger | - | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dugger | - | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2004 | Flash Flood | Dugger | - | State Road 54 was impassable due to high water. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Dugger | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Dugger | - | no account filed |
| October 2000 | Hail | Dugger | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gambill | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Cass | 1.5 miles | 18 | |
| Scotchtown | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| Jericho | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| Stringtown | 2.2 miles | 18 | |
| Shiloh | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Farnsworth (historical) | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Caledonia (historical) | 4.4 miles | 18 |
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 Dugger | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q531517 | The 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 447635. 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.







