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Gasburg, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46158. It lies near Keller Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mooresville West quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Gasburg within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

2,614 words on this township

Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Monroe Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Monroe Township - 2,614 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gasburg in 2005, burning under an acre 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
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
7 October 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Gasburg: 5 producers, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gen Shale Prdts Brick Plnt/BrooklynFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Adams PitClayProducer
BrooklynClayProducer
Groninger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hopkins GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Port RoyalSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gasburg in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2025FloodGasburg1 killedA flood fatality occurred as the victim was clearing debris from a private pond. After the debris was cleared, a whirlpool formed in the pond and the man was sucked underneath.
June 2021Flash FloodGasburg$100,000Water rescues performed in northern Morgan county. Rapidly rising waters also got into several homes across the county.
July 2008Flash FloodGasburg$4,000Heavy thunderstorm rains flooded roads over a large portion of Morgan county, including Logap, State Route 39, Downey, Mahalasville, State Route 252, and State Route 42 over towards Cloverdale. Several roads were closed due to high water, including Interstate 70 and Everett Road.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindGasburg$1,000Power lines were reported down near Echo Lake due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGasburg$1,000An eight inch diameter, healthy tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2021HailGasburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Allman1.6 miles14
Lake Hart1.9 miles14
Bunker Hill1.9 miles14
Monrovia2.6 miles14
Sundown Manor3.2 miles14
Mooresville3.6 miles14
Brookmoor3.8 miles14
Ridgewood4.2 miles14

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 GasburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5526384The 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 447645. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.