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Marietta, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hendricks Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46176. It lies near Money Hill. The Survey maps it on the Marietta quadrangle. It stands 722 feet above sea level.

Marietta within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marietta in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2013Thunderstorm WindMarietta$5,000Trees were downed at State Road 252, east of Interstate 65 in southwest Shelby County due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindMarietta$5,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMarietta$500Tree limbs were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMarietta-Trees were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Smithland2.4 miles14
Bengal3.0 miles16
Mount Auburn3.4 miles16
Lewis Creek4.5 miles14
Fenns4.7 miles14
Flat Rock6.0 miles15
Wilson Corner6.8 miles14
Riley Village7.6 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on MariettaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6763207The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 438606. 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.