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Natchez, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Halbert Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47581. The Survey maps it on the Hillham quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Natchez within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

17 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Natchez between 2001 and 2020, burning about 104 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 burning8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 April 2005Recreation and ceremony10 acresHoosier National ForestROLAND FIRE
2 April 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHoosier National ForestROLAND POWER FIRE
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresHoosier National ForestSTEVENS SAWMILL
24 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BADEN RESTART
24 March 2001Debris and open burning15 acresHoosier National ForestSCARLET
20 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestWINDOM
17 March 2005Debris and open burning4.0 acresHoosier National ForestSTEVENS FIRE
14 March 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreHoosier National ForestMILL ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 89 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 89 workings within 5 miles of Natchez: 64 occurrences, 17 prospects, 6 producers, 2 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
National Gypsum Co. Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1951, 1955
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
U.S. Gypsum Co. Shoals MineGypsum-AnhydriteProducer1951, 1955
United States Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
United States Gypsum CompanyGypsum-AnhydriteProducer
Opening No. 11IronOccurrence
Opening No. 12IronOccurrence
Opening No. 12IronProspect
Opening No. 13IronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Natchez in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
March 2008FloodNatchez1 killed, $10,000An elderly man drowned after driving into floodwaters while he was on his way to a doctor's appointment. The 85 year old male was pulled from a flooded area near the Lost River. His body was found about 70 feet away from his car in four and a half feet of water. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. Flooding continued until around April 2nd. The flood death occurred late in the morning on March 31st. Flood times are approximate.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindNatchez1 hurt, $16,000A large tree was downed onto a home due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. One person sustained non-life threatening injuries.
April 2008FloodNatchez-An elderly man drowned after driving into floodwaters while he was on his way to a doctor's appointment. The 85 year old male was pulled from a flooded area near the Lost River. His body was found about 70 feet away from his car in four and a half feet of water. His death was ruled an accidental drowning. The direct fatality occurred late in the morning on March 31st. Property damage was estimated around ten thousand dollars. The flooding began on March 20th at 1700. Flood times are approximate.

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Lacy3.7 miles15
Ironton4.6 miles15
Rusk4.8 miles12
Pleasant Valley4.9 miles15
Willow Valley5.3 miles18
Shoals5.4 miles15
Windom5.5 miles12
Yenne6.5 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 NatchezAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6968552The 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 439945. 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.