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Lamar, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47550. The Survey maps it on the Santa Claus quadrangle.

Lamar within Spencer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lamar in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 hail. 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
April 2005HailLamar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spencer 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
Kennedy1.2 miles15
Schley2.4 miles15
Liberal2.6 miles15
Clay City2.6 miles15
Santa Fe3.0 miles15
Santa Claus3.5 miles15
Buffaloville3.7 miles15
Evanston4.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 437569. 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.

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.