Laud, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46725. The Survey maps it on the Laud quadrangle.

Laud within Whitley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Laud quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

7,634 words on this township

History of Whitley County, Indiana, published 1907 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 7,634 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Laud between 2005 and 2007, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning	2

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
30 May 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 April 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laud in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Laud	-	Trained spotter estimated 60 mph gust.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Laud	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down onto a home, with notable damage to the residence.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Laud	-	The public reported a tree and a large tree limb were blown down.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Laud	-	Emergency management officials reported a church was damaged with shingles being ripped off and some broken windows. Several large trees were down across a local street.
March 1998	Tornado (F0)	Laud	-	small tornado touched down in Laud causing tree damage and moderate damage to one home.
June 2008	Hail	Laud	-	no account filed
March 2003	Hail	Laud	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Laud	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Briggs	2.7 miles	11
Raber	2.7 miles	11
Washington Center	3.0 miles	10
Peabody	3.2 miles	11
Saturn	5.2 miles	10
Tunker	5.6 miles	10
Coesse	6.2 miles	11
Walnut Corners	6.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 437645. 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.