Fickle, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46041. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Fickle within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,341 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Washington Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Fires near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Fickle between 2004 and 2005, burning about 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	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
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 May 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 March 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 October 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mulberry

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fickle in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 5 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Fickle	$20,000	A 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location with a semi truck blown over on Interstate 65 between mile markers 156 and 157.
February 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Fickle	$15,000	A semi-truck was overturned on Interstate 65 near Frankfort. The truck was leaking propane and the Interstate had to be shut down.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fickle	$12,000	A semi-truck was overturned on Interstate 65 near the Indiana 28 exit, due to severe thunderstorm winds. This information was obtained from the Lafayette Journal and Courier. The time and location are estimated.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fickle	$12,000	A semi-truck was blown over at Interstate 65 and State Route 28 due to thunderstorm wind gusts. The time this even occurred is estimated.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fickle	$5,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts down trees near Colfax at County Road 700 West and County Road 300 South.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Colfax	4.6 miles	9
Jefferson	4.7 miles	10
Manson	4.7 miles	10
Mulberry	5.8 miles	10
Hamilton	6.5 miles	10
Mattix Corner	8.1 miles	10
Woodside Park	8.1 miles	10
Frankfort	8.8 miles	10

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 Fickle	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5446518	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 446766. 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.