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Hymera, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47879. It stands on East Fork Busseron Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hymera quadrangle. 653 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Hymera within Sullivan County

Population over time

2 figures

Hymera fell from 801 to 653 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010801
2020653-148 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hymera between 2002 and 2005, burning about 12 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 March 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 March 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 March 2003Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 December 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hymera in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHymera$10,000no account filed
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHymera$4,000Several houses had shingles blown off and numerous tree limbs were downed in Hymera due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindHymera$2,000Power was out to a large portion of town due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindHymera$1,000A tree was downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts and knocked down power lines.
June 2008Heavy RainHymera-The Shakamak State Park LARC, an automated precipitation gauge, reported 0.90 inches of rain in just 15 minutes time...an hourly rainfall rate of 3.60 inches per hour.
January 2006HailHymera-no account filed
March 2006HailHymera-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Wilfred2.7 miles16
Greenville3.1 miles16
Jackson Hill3.4 miles16
Baker3.9 miles16
Hawton4.2 miles16
East Shelburn4.2 miles18
Baldridge4.5 miles16
Standard4.7 miles18

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 HymeraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2124972The 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 436673. 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.