Murray, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46714. The Survey maps it on the Uniondale quadrangle.

Murray within Wells County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Uniondale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Murray between 2002 and 2004, burning about 14 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
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
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
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 October 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wells County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Murray: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Erie Stone Company-Bluffton	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z75	Zinc, Sulfur	Occurrence	Sphalerite
Wells Co. Hwy. Dept	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Wells County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murray in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
August 2005	Lightning	Murray	$30,000	Lightning struck a house northwest of Murray. Residents initially reported little more than a brief loss of power. Shortly thereafter, smoke was detected and all residents evacuated with fire breaking out in the upper part of the two and a half story building. Resulting damage to the structure and its contents were estimated at around $30,000.
November 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Murray	-	A mesonet site recorded a 60 mph wind gust.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Murray	-	Trees were blown down between Bluffton and Kingsland. A tree was also reported down on 500 North east of State Route 1.
May 2019	Hail	Murray	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wells 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
North Oaks	1.8 miles	10
Kingsland	2.9 miles	10
Toll Gate Heights	3.0 miles	10
Uniondale	3.4 miles	10
Greenwood	3.8 miles	10
Bluffton	4.0 miles	11
Tocsin	5.5 miles	10
Craigville	5.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 439894. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, 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.