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New Marion, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Shelby Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47023. It stands on Campfire Creek. The Survey maps it on the Versailles quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

New Marion within Ripley County

On record in New Marion

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

28 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of New Marion between 2001 and 2020, burning about 2,967 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 were 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
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Firearms and explosives use2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 September 2011Arson/incendiarism280 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeK ROAD FIRE
30 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 9 FIRE
6 June 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 3 FIRE
28 June 2012Arson/incendiarism12 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 5 FIRE
26 June 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE 4 FIRE
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeRANGE FIRE
16 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeSHUNK FARM FIRE
10 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined65 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeSHRAPNEL FOUR FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Marion: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Berry Materialsversailles PlntqyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Marion in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
August 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Marion$40,000Three barns and a pole barn were heavily damaged. Several trees up to ten feet in diameter were downed along South 1000 Road. A tree also fell on a vehicle, causing minor damage.
August 2007Flash FloodNew Marion$15,000Numerous roads were flooded, with several automobiles stranded in the high water. A bridge was washed out along County Road 850.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Marion$10,000The sides of an old barn collapsed.
March 2009Thunderstorm WindNew Marion$3,000Power poles were knocked down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindNew Marion$1,000Multiple large tree branches were downed near the New Marion Volunteer Fire Department.
June 2025FloodNew Marion-High water was reported along West County Road 450 South, between New Marion and South County Road 400 West.
June 2021Flash FloodNew Marion-High water was flowing over Old Michigan Road.
March 2017Flash FloodNew Marion-High water and debris were reported on several roads in the southwest part of the county.
May 2002Flash FloodNew Marion-There was high water on County Road 400.
June 1996HailNew Marion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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
Jolleyville0.9 miles8
Saint Magdalen3.8 miles9
Correct3.8 miles9
Rexville4.0 miles8
New Carrollton4.3 miles8
Holton4.9 miles10
Haney Corner5.5 miles8
Dabney5.7 miles9

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 New MarionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688696The 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 440083. 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.