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.
Population over time
2 figuresMulberry 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,254 | |
| 2020 | 1,231 | -23 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Mulberry quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
14,518 words on this townshipCombination 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 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 2 July 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 July 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 May 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 5 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 March 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
18 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $35,000 | A 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $10,000 | A 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $5,000 | Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $5,000 | Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $5,000 | Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $5,000 | Trees were reported down in Mulberry due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | $3,000 | A tree was blown down onto a house in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2009 | Flash Flood | Mulberry | $750 | Flash flooding was observed across many county roads. |
| May 2009 | Flash Flood | Mulberry | - | 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 2009 | Flood | Mulberry | - | Frankfort Police reported extensive street flooding was occurring over parts of the Frankfort area. Some local roads were closed by high water. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | - | Thunderstorm winds blew down 2 trees. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | - | A 25-inch diameter tree was blown down. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | - | A 24-inch diameter pine tree, estimated at 70 feet tall, was snapped off. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mulberry | - | Several tress were downed near county roads 900 West and 200 North. |
| September 2020 | Hail | Mulberry | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Mulberry | - | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Hail | Mulberry | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hamilton | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Edna Mills | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Mattix Corner | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Fickle | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Cambria | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Jefferson | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Rossville | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Woodside Park | 8.2 miles | 10 |
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 Mulberry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2641162 | The 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.




