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Fulda, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47577. The Survey maps it on the Fulda quadrangle.

Fulda within Spencer County

On record in Fulda

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Fulda in 2003, 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
Debris and open burning1

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
13 April 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoosier National ForestBRISTOW-ST MEINRAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spencer County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fulda in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2006HailFulda-Received through the NSSL Severe Hail Verification Experiment.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindFulda-Several trees were blown down over eastern portions of the county.
June 2006HailFulda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spencer 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
Huffman3.2 miles15
Santa Fe3.9 miles15
New Boston3.9 miles15
Santa Claus4.2 miles15
Saint Meinrad4.4 miles16
Lamar4.7 miles15
Schley4.9 miles15
Evanston5.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 434887. 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.