BlockPalestine, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46539. The Survey maps it on the Burket quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Burket quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
919 words on this townshipBiographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Harrison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
To see the dilapidated village to-dav, tiie stranger might conceive that the name was a misnomer, yet the time was when Palestine was a handsome, thrifty village. Like many inland towns, the business has been attracted to others situated upon railroads in the vicinity, which, unfortunately for Palestine, induced her business men to remove to other places. Isham Summy laid out the village in 1837, and for many years it prospered.
Passage source: Biographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887.
In 1854 a Methodist church was organized in Palestine, and in 1855 the society converted a bhicksmith shop into a house of worship. In 1859 the building committee, A. E. Mayer, John Fresh and William Sarber, succeeded in raising funds to complete their new church, and it was dedicated by Kev. Jacob Colclazer in December of that year.
Passage source: Biographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887.
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 Harrison Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Palestine between 2002 and 2003, burning about 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 2 April 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palestine in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palestine | $2,000 | Large tree limb down on pickup truck. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palestine | - | An off duty NWS employee reported several trees ranging from one to three feet in diameter, were downed or snapped in half at a residence. One of the trees fell onto a home, causing roof damage. |
| July 2014 | Tornado (EF1) | Palestine | - | A brief EF-1 tornado was confirmed on the edge of a larger swath of damaging winds by a NWS Storm survey. The tornado touched down near a residence on South County Road 400 West where several tree trunks were snapped at the tops with 2 trees uprooted. A small barn suffered extensive roof damage and partial wall failure. The tornado quickly shifted towards the southeast, crossing State Route 25 where it began to lift. As it was lifting, over twenty 50 to 75 foot tall healthy trees were uprooted or snapped several feet in the air (DI: TS, DOD: 4). One of the trees fell onto a residence, but no injuries were reported. Maximum winds were estimated at 95 mph. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Palestine | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Palestine | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burket | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| Mentone | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Sevastopol | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Claypool | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Atwood | 5.9 miles | 11 | |
| Warsaw | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hoffman Lake | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Beaver Dam | 7.2 miles | 11 |
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 Palestine | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7127287 | 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 440837. 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.