BlockLiberty Center, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46766. The Survey maps it on the Liberty Center quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Liberty Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Liberty Center in 2003, burning about 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 April 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty Center in 9 storm reports between 1994 and 2012: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Liberty Center | $50,000 | This tornado originated in Huntington county southeast of Plum Tree and crossed into Wells county 3 miles northwest of Liberty center and lifted 3 miles south of Liberty Center. F1 damage was to a home...as well as trees and power poles snapped. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty Center | - | Law enforcement officials reported power lines down. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty Center | - | A trained spotter reported trees and power lines down. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty Center | - | A trained spotter measured a 62 mph wind gust. Several limbs and larger branches were down in the area of the wind gust, some blocking roads. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty Center | - | Law enforcement officials reported trees down by wind of around 60 mph in the Liberty Center area. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty Center | - | Trained spotters reported large trees uprooted and large limbs down. |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Liberty Center | - | Trees were downed. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Liberty Center | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Liberty Center | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellsburg | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Travisville | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Greenville | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Poneto | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Rockford | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Bluffton | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Keystone | 7.2 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 449685. 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.