BlockKyana, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47513. The Survey maps it on the Saint Anthony quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1955 USGS Saint Anthony quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Saint Anthony quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
466 words on this townshipHistory of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Kyana. This town was founded by the Louisville Mining and Manufacturing Compan3% and bears the abbreviation of its home state, and the termination of the name of the state in which it is located. The plat bears date of August 11, 1882. Its deeds contain a clause to prevent the sale of intoxicants. The town is situated on the Southern railroad and is a good shipping point. For 3^ears Capt. H. L. Wheat, who died in 1909, was its leading citizen.
Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kyana in 2010, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 November 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | VET |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kyana in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Kyana | $10,000 | Extreme rainfall of around six inches in two hours fell near Schnellville in Dubois County. The basement of a Schnellville grain mill flooded and a person had to be rescued from a vehicle on Kyana Road just north of State HWY 64. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kyana | - | A tree was blocking both lanes on the 7800 block of South 600 East. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kyana | - | A tree was blocking South Kyana Road. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kyana | - | A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds, blocking both lanes of Kyana Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Marks | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Anthony | 2.4 miles | 13 | |
| Schnellville | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Mentor | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Birdseye | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Bretzville | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Celestine | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Maltersville | 6.4 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 437481. 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.