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.
Population over time
2 figuresHymera 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 801 | |
| 2020 | 653 | -148 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1943 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Hymera quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 2002Regional 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 ceremony | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 March 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 December 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 10 November 2005 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2004Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hymera | $10,000 | no account filed |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hymera | $4,000 | Several houses had shingles blown off and numerous tree limbs were downed in Hymera due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hymera | $2,000 | Power was out to a large portion of town due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hymera | $1,000 | A tree was downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts and knocked down power lines. |
| June 2008 | Heavy Rain | Hymera | - | 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 2006 | Hail | Hymera | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Hymera | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilfred | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Greenville | 3.1 miles | 16 | |
| Jackson Hill | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Baker | 3.9 miles | 16 | |
| Hawton | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| East Shelburn | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| Baldridge | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Standard | 4.7 miles | 18 |
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 Hymera | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2124972 | 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 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.







