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Oriole, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Oil Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47551. It lies near German Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Branchville quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Oriole within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Oriole between 1998 and 2015, burning about 121 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1

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
29 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestLYNCH
29 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestBARN
20 August 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestBUZZARD ROOST
16 August 2012Naturalunder an acreHoosier National Forest66 LIGHTNING
17 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestLIBERTY
21 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestEATON
11 June 2015Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresHoosier National ForestBIRDS CEMETERY
7 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresHoosier National ForestYEOMAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oriole in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindOriole-Trees were blown down near Oriole.
June 2011Tornado (EF0)Oriole-Damage to trees on both sides of State Route 66 was observed where this road takes a brief northeast jog around 1.2 miles northeast of Oriole. Approximately 10 to 15 trees had either toppled or had their tops snapped. With such a brief touchdown, damage could only be observed for around 0.2 miles.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindOriole-Trees and power lines were downed in Oriole. In Anderson Township, a tree was downed over a roadway, and power lines were downed.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindOriole-Several trees were downed between St. Croix and Oriole.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Mount Pleasant3.3 miles16
Branchville4.0 miles14
Magnet5.4 miles16
Bandon5.5 miles14
Saint Croix5.8 miles14
Celina5.9 miles14
Leopold6.1 miles16
Apalona6.8 miles14

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 OrioleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197839The 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 451306. 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.