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Pimento, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Linton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47866. The Survey maps it on the Pimento quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Pimento within Vigo County

On record in Pimento

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

7 surveys from 15 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

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pimento between 2003 and 2004, burning about 7 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Smoking1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 June 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 May 2004Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 March 2003Smoking4.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
14 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 November 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pimento in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2024Thunderstorm WindPimento$50,000Wet microburst from strong shower downed a couple tress and snapped several power poles.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPimento$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down across southern Vigo county.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindPimento$7,000Trees were downed along French Drive due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2009LightningPimento$5,000Lightning started a barn on fire on West French Road. Damage cost is a gross estimate.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPimento$4,000Several large trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts on the 11400 block of Sugar Lane.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindPimento$1,000A large tree limb was downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto State Road 246.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindPimento$500Small tree limbs were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph.
May 2011Flash FloodPimento$500The intersection of US Highway 41 and State Route 246 has nine inches of water over the road due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPimento$250An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. Power was knocked out at a gas station. Trash cans were sent flying across the lot.
May 2024HailPimento-One-inch hail amid thunderstorm winds gusting to 45 mph.

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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
Youngstown3.6 miles15
Blackhawk4.2 miles16
Keller4.6 miles16
Woodgate5.2 miles17
Allendale5.7 miles17
Brown Jug Corner6.5 miles16
Prairieton6.6 miles15
Southwood6.6 miles17

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 PimentoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7194634The 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 441145. 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.