BlockGoblesville, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clear Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46750. The Survey maps it on the Bippus quadrangle. It stands 840 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Bippus quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Bippus quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Goblesville between 2003 and 2007, burning about 6 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 burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 April 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
20 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goblesville in 20 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | 2 hurt | Two golfers injured at Clear Creek Golf Course when the hut they were sheltering in was destroyed by the wind. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | $50,000 | Report that a truck and trailer overturned. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | $500 | Minor tree limb damage. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Goblesville | $500 | Spotter reports 1 inch hail and also 50 mph wind gusts. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | Emergency management officials shared a picture of a healthy tree snapped at the base. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | Emergency management officials reported an empty grain bin was toppled. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Goblesville | - | The public reported hail to the size of golf balls. Some trees had leaves stripped due to the hail. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | A trained spotter reported a large one to two foot diameter tree was snapped in half, falling onto a home. Other smaller tree limbs were down and fell onto some roofs as well. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down across a road. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | Emergency management officials reported healthy limbs up to 3 inches downed at State Route 9 and County Road 900 North. |
| September 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | A trained spotter reported eight to twelve inch tree limbs down. A power pole was snapped in half in the area as well. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Goblesville | - | A trained spotter reported four minutes of penny size hail near the intersection of County Roads 1200 North and 200 East. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | Amateur radio operators reported large branches down as well as some structural damage to a barn in the area. |
| June 2011 | Flash Flood | Goblesville | - | Amateur radio operators reported water over the road in and around Roanoke, including near the intersection of Smith and Clark Streets as well as County Road 900 North. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | A trained spotter estimated 60 mph winds west of Roanoke. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Goblesville | - | Several trees down. |
| February 2017 | Hail | Goblesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Goblesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Goblesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Goblesville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Makin | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Bracken | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Bippus | 6.8 miles | 10 | |
| Huntington | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Roanoke | 7.5 miles | 10 | |
| Mahon | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Mardenis | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Bowerstown | 7.9 miles | 12 |
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 Goblesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5575545 | 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 435145. 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.