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Farmersburg, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Curry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47850. The Survey maps it on the Shelburn quadrangle. 1,069 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 564 feet above sea level.

Farmersburg within Sullivan County

Population over time

2 figures

Farmersburg fell from 1,118 to 1,069 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
20101,118
20201,069-49 (-4%)

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

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Farmersburg between 2001 and 2005, burning about 34 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 June 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 May 2004Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresIndiana 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

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farmersburg in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail. 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindFarmersburg$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew temperature shelter apart at Farmersburg TV-2 COOP station.
May 2009Flash FloodFarmersburg$1,000Flooded roads were reported by the Sullivan County Department of Highways. The roads were located approximately in Farmersburg to 5 miles southeast of Farmersburg around Hymera in Sullivan County.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindFarmersburg-A 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at WTWO.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindFarmersburg-A measured 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed at the Channel 2 location.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFarmersburg-Thunderstorm winds blew trees and/or limbs down. Flash flooding was observed.
June 2006Flash FloodFarmersburg-County Road 1100 North was closed by high water. No damage was reported.
October 2004Flash FloodFarmersburg-Water covered Division Road at County Road 975 North.
March 2023HailFarmersburg-no account filed
May 2006HailFarmersburg-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
Baldridge1.8 miles16
Standard3.6 miles18
Curryville4.3 miles18
Wilfred4.5 miles16
Shelburn4.9 miles18
East Shelburn5.1 miles18
Jackson Hill5.6 miles16
Scott City5.8 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 FarmersburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2567207The 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 449655. 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.