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Pikes Peak, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47201. It lies near Brand Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Nashville quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Pikes Peak within Brown County

On record in Pikes Peak

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Pikes Peak between 1999 and 2018, burning about 72 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
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestWHITE
8 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use35 acresHoosier National ForestFREEDOM
7 April 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestLUTHERAN LAKE
12 April 2018Debris and open burning3.5 acresHoosier National ForestPOPLAR GROVE
7 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresHoosier National ForestMT HEALTHY
4 March 2005Debris and open burning2.5 acresHoosier National ForestCORNER FIRE
31 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestLEHMAN
23 March 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestOGOLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pikes Peak in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPikes Peak$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb onto Indiana Route 135.
June 2010FloodPikes Peak$500State Route 135 was reported to be flooded and impassible between Stone Head and State Route 46. Flooding was ongoing at the Brown County State Park Horse Camp.

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Stone Head0.9 miles21
Lake on the Green1.4 miles18
Christiansburg2.9 miles21
Becks Grove3.7 miles20
Mount Liberty3.8 miles21
Spurgeons Corner4.0 miles21
Gnaw Bone4.3 miles21
Story4.4 miles21

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 Pikes PeakAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688739The 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 449710. 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.