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Mulberry, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46058. The Survey maps it on the Mulberry quadrangle. 1,231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Mulberry within Clinton County

Population over time

2 figures

Mulberry fell from 1,254 to 1,231 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,254
20201,231-23 (-2%)

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.

In the county-history sources

14,518 words on this township

Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

It was originally a part of Ross and Washington Townships. By reference to the township history of the former, it will be seen that the first settlement was made in the vicinity of Rossville, and the latter in the vicinity of Jefferson. Hence, that portion of Clinton "now included within the boundaries of Madison was not settled until a few years later.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.

In 1831, came the following reliable men: Samuel Harper, who located on the John McNutt farm; James Hamilton, on the farm owned by George Old; Jacob Baum, on what is now the. Daniel Baum farm; John Garlmger, on the farm the property off James McDavis; Major Brown, on the Hamilton farm; and William Peters, on the farm where he is still living. The last named gentleman has been longer in the township than any one now living. He has lived beyond man's allotted time, yet, for one of his active

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.

In 1832, Nicholas Buck settled on the land now the present site of Mulberry, and David Leckiitner, on the land where he is now living. Both of these gentlemen are yet honored and respected citizens of the township. Others, of 1832, were Hlisha Rogers, John Sloan, David Darland and Mr. Harris.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Madison Township - it names this place 12 more 12 times.

Fires near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Mulberry between 2002 and 2005, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 July 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 April 2005Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 March 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Storms near this place

18 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mulberry in 18 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMulberry$35,000A grain elevator was destroyed and part of a building was blown in due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts in Mulberry. A home was reported to have sustained damage as well.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMulberry$10,000A roof was blown off of a hog barn by straight line thunderstorm wind gusts near the intersection of W County Road 200 N and N County Road 900 W. Some of the metal and lumber from the roof was littering the corn field on the same property. All hogs were accounted for. This report was relayed by WFLI.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMulberry$10,000no account filed
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMulberry$5,000Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMulberry$5,000Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMulberry$5,000Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMulberry$5,000Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMulberry$3,000A tree was blown down onto a house in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2009Flash FloodMulberry$750Flash flooding was observed across many county roads.
May 2009Flash FloodMulberry-Frankfort Police reported serious flooding in the Frankfort area. They reported a few people had to be rescued from their vehicles and up to 3 feet of water was occurring on some city streets.
May 2009FloodMulberry-Frankfort Police reported extensive street flooding was occurring over parts of the Frankfort area. Some local roads were closed by high water.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindMulberry-Thunderstorm winds blew down 2 trees.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMulberry-A 25-inch diameter tree was blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindMulberry-A 24-inch diameter pine tree, estimated at 70 feet tall, was snapped off.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindMulberry-Several tress were downed near county roads 900 West and 200 North.
September 2020HailMulberry-no account filed
March 2006HailMulberry-no account filed
May 1995HailMulberry-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Hamilton2.5 miles10
Edna Mills5.0 miles9
Mattix Corner5.2 miles10
Fickle5.8 miles10
Cambria5.8 miles10
Jefferson6.0 miles10
Rossville6.2 miles9
Woodside Park8.2 miles10

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 MulberryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2641162The 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 439866. 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.