Pettit, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47905. It stands on Hog Run. The Survey maps it on the Pyrmont quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Pettit within Tippecanoe County

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.

1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Pyrmont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pettit between 2002 and 2005, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	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
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 March 2004	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
10 March 2004	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
29 February 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 December 2002	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
17 November 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
28 October 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 October 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pettit in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 1 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
June 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Pettit	$18,000	A National Weather Service damage survey found the first tornado of the episode was an EF1 with maximum winds of 95 mph and a path length of 2.17 miles, which included both Tippecanoe and Carroll Counties. It began near the intersection of 1025 E and 100 N in far Eastern Tippecanoe county. The roof on the east side of a barn was lifted and thrown about 20 yards to the southeast. Several large branches were broken off trees and thrown to the west and northwest, several being drug along the ground. A small wind mill was knocked down and pointed into the path of the tornado. Several small farm vehicles were moved or overturned. The tornado then appeared to lift briefly but may have occurred again in a field of corn before hitting a barn and house along county\|line road, northeast of where it originally began. Here another roof segment was torn off a small barn and tree branches were thrown into the side of a house and a few went through windows. A car was also pulled about 5 feet. Damage at all of the locations impacted was consistent with an EF1 and winds up to 95 mph. The tornado then crossed into Carroll County.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Pettit	$1,000	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. Large tree branches were downed and pea size hail was noted as well.

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Monitor	2.5 miles	13
Heath	3.3 miles	9
Dayton	4.4 miles	9
Meadowbrook	5.3 miles	13
Wyandot	5.4 miles	10
Buck Creek	5.6 miles	13
Colburn	7.0 miles	9
Delp	7.3 miles	13

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 Pettit	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7179356	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 441066. 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.