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Hedrick, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Steuben Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47991. The Survey maps it on the West Lebanon quadrangle. 67 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Hedrick within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

3,815 words on this township

Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Steuben Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Steuben Township - 3,815 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hedrick in 2011, burning about 10 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
6 October 2011Debris and open burning10 acresIllinois Division of Forestry ResourcesTHORNSBUSH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hedrick in 2 storm reports in 2011: 2 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHedrick$25,000Part of a roof was removed from a house north of the intersection of County Roads South 900 West and West 350 South due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Tree limbs were also downed. The Fowler State Bank sign was also blown over in Williamsport.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHedrick-Thunderstorm wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph were estimated in this location. Pea sized hail was also observed.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Sloan0.8 miles9
Stewart4.1 miles9
Marshfield4.1 miles11
Pence4.2 miles13
Sycamore Corner5.0 miles9
Johnsonville5.1 miles11
West Lebanon5.9 miles9
Old Town6.3 miles9

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 HedrickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3129336The 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 435978. 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.