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Greenbrier, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47432. The Survey maps it on the Greenbrier quadrangle. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Greenbrier within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Greenbrier between 1995 and 2016, burning about 144 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
4 March 2006Debris and open burning20 acresHoosier National ForestPATOKA LAKE
31 March 2015Debris and open burning20 acresHoosier National ForestTONY'S MARINE
24 March 1995Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSPRINGS VALLEY
22 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresHoosier National ForestGRIMES LAKE
21 March 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoosier National ForestORANGE
13 March 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoosier National ForestYOUNGS FIRE
11 March 2003Debris and open burning6.3 acresHoosier National ForestMCDONALD CHAPEL
11 March 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BADEN BARREL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenbrier in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2025HailGreenbrier-Quarter sized hail was observed along South County Road 490 West in southern Orange County.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindGreenbrier-A tree was reported down at a residence on County Road 760 S.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Greenbrier-An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds up to 110 mph. This tornado touched down near the intersection of Indiana 145 and Base Line Road, where it destroyed a metal-roofed barn. Trees were uprooted and snapped. At a house on Base Line Road the front porch was ripped off and deposited in the back yard. A cluster of large, tall evergreens was snapped off and strewn chaotically in all directions.

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Youngs Creek3.3 miles15
Ethel4.4 miles15
Pine Valley5.7 miles15
Fargo5.8 miles15
French Lick6.8 miles15
Norton7.1 miles13
Newton Stewart7.1 miles15
Abydel7.4 miles15

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 GreenbrierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5603734The 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 450982. 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.