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Kirksville, Indiana

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1999. It stands in Indian Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47403. It sits by Crum Point. The Survey maps it on the Clear Creek quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Kirksville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 27 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Indian Creek township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From 1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 - Indian Creek Township

Army Correspondence

May, the members of Capt. Kelley's company, Fourteenth Regiment, sent home to their friends $2.000. As this time also the body of Capt. Kelley was brought home and buried. He had been mortally wounded at the hotly contested battle of Winchester, and after lingering several weeks had died at Cincinnati, where he had been brought by his loving and faithful wife for medical treatment.

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In the county-history sources

40,478 words on this township

1884 History of Monroe County Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Indian Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Indian Creek Township - 40,478 words.

Fires near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Kirksville between 1993 and 2013, burning about 42 acres in total. 1 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 burning12
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
23 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 August 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 June 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
7 April 1993Arson/incendiarism20 acresHoosier National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Kirksville: 11 occurrences, 5 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, Dimension, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cleveland Stone Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z70Lead, Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite
4-R QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Beck QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Independent Limestone CompanyLimestone, DimensionProducer
Monarch QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Shawnee QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Victor Oolitic Stone CompanyLimestone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirksville in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2013: 4 hail, 1 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
June 2013Thunderstorm WindKirksville-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
March 2012HailKirksville-no account filed
April 2006HailKirksville-no account filed
April 2006HailKirksville-no account filed
June 2001HailKirksville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Victor2.0 miles27
Buenavista2.4 miles22
Stanford4.2 miles22
Harrodsburg4.2 miles27
Elwren5.3 miles22
Garden Acres5.7 miles27
Sanders5.8 miles27
Clear Creek5.8 miles27

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 KirksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6415830The 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 437361. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.