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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.

Dugger within Sullivan County

Population over time

2 figures

Dugger 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.

YearPeople Change
2010920
2020797-123 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

10 since 2001

Regional 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 ceremony5
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 April 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 April 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
9 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 March 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2004Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

11 since 2000

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2018Thunderstorm WindDugger$1,000A tree was down blocking a road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2012HailDugger-This report was relayed from NWSChat.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindDugger-A 70 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDugger-A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph was observed in Dugger.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindDugger-A thunderstorm wind gust of 75 mph was estimated in Dugger.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindDugger-Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindDugger-Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2004Flash FloodDugger-State Road 54 was impassable due to high water.
June 2010HailDugger-no account filed
April 2001HailDugger-no account filed
October 2000HailDugger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Gambill1.5 miles18
Cass1.5 miles18
Scotchtown2.0 miles18
Jericho2.0 miles18
Stringtown2.2 miles18
Shiloh2.7 miles18
Farnsworth (historical)3.9 miles18
Caledonia (historical)4.4 miles18

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 DuggerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q531517The 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.