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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 27 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.
- 1908 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:48000
- 1910 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Clear Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Clear Creek quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1999 USGS Clear Creek quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Indian Creek township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
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.
In the county-history sources
40,478 words on this township1884 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 1993Regional 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 burning | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 August 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 14 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 June 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 June 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 7 April 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Hoosier National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Stone Limestone Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Sphalerite Occurrence Z70 | Lead, Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Sphalerite | |
| 4-R Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Beck Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Independent Limestone Company | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Monarch Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Shawnee Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Victor Oolitic Stone Company | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 2001Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirksville | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Kirksville | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Kirksville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Victor | 2.0 miles | 27 | |
| Buenavista | 2.4 miles | 22 | |
| Stanford | 4.2 miles | 22 | |
| Harrodsburg | 4.2 miles | 27 | |
| Elwren | 5.3 miles | 22 | |
| Garden Acres | 5.7 miles | 27 | |
| Sanders | 5.8 miles | 27 | |
| Clear Creek | 5.8 miles | 27 |
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 Kirksville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6415830 | 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 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.










