Luther, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 46750. The Survey maps it on the South Whitley East quadrangle.

Luther within Whitley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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
1962 USGS South Whitley East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Luther between 2001 and 2007, burning about 8 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
30 May 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 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
27 March 2003	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 March 2001	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

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Luther in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
June 2015	Flood	Luther	-	Emergency management officials reported water over State Route 114 between County Roads 300 West and 400 West. The flooding was likely due to the rapid rise of local creeks and drainage ditches in the area as two to four inches of rain fell in a short period of time.
October 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Luther	-	The tornado continued from Huntington County across open fields, snapping a few small trees along its path. The tornado destroyed several small metal grain bins and damaged some farm outbuildings. Debris was found twisted and thrown several yards to the northeast. Maximum wind speeds are estimated at around 75 mph.
June 2008	Hail	Luther	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Luther	-	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
Tunker	3.3 miles	10
Washington Center	4.6 miles	10
South Whitley	6.3 miles	10
Collamer	7.0 miles	10
Laud	7.2 miles	11
Peabody	7.3 miles	11
Briggs	7.9 miles	11
Raber	9.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 438413. 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.