BlockPlummer, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47424. It stands on Gilbert Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scotland quadrangle. It stands 495 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Scotland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Scotland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
578 words on this townshipEarly History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Samuel Plummer was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, and married Kebecca Evans. They had three children, two girls and one boy. Mr. Plummer died about thirty years ago on Licking river. The son, Mr. Alexander Plummer, was born in Flemming county, Kentucky, and came from there to Owen county, Indiana, about 1825, and then to Greene county in 1880, Avhere be married
Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875.
Miss !Nancy Plummer of another family of that name. Alexander Plummer first settkd in Fairplay township. Mrs. Plummer had ten children and raised seven of them to be grown* Mrs. Plummer died and the husband married Mrs. Mary Rollison some years since. They live on the Marco and Bloomfield road five miles from Bloomfield. Mr. Alexander Plummer has been our County Surveyor for near twenty years past, and he has made more farms and rolled more big log heaps than any other man of his age. He has also killed more deer than anybody except old Emanuel Hatfield. He has a bear's tooth and a pen-knife fifty years old.
Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
20 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Plummer in 2008, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 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 burning | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 1 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 13 July 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 November 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 23 November 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Plummer: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield Sand & Gravel Corp. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Bloomfield Shale Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Greene Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own Crews | Stone | Producer | ||
| Furnace Bank No. 2 | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Furnace Bank No. 2 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Richland Furnace Ore Bank No. 1 | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Richland Furnace Ore Bank No. 1 | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plummer in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 4 flood, 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 2014 | Tornado (EF0) | Plummer | - | An officer reported a confirmed touchdown near Baseline Road, south of Bloomfield. This EF-0 tornado was on the ground briefly. Little to no damage was observed. |
| February 2009 | Flood | Plummer | - | Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including in and near Elliston, due to heavy rain. It extensively affected agricultural land and county roads. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Plummer | - | Flooding occurred along the White River in and near Newberry, Indiana. Flooding continued into May, with the river cresting then. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Plummer | - | Flooding occurred along the White River in and near Newberry, Indiana. The river crested twice during this flood. The primary crest was 5 feet above flood stage at the Newberry river gauge on April 11th at a reading of 18 feet. The secondary crest was 1.3 feet above flood stage on April 16th at a reading of 14.3 feet. A river level of this height typically affects higher bottomlands, floods some county roads, and surrounds 5 to 10 river cabins. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Plummer | - | Flooding of bottomlands occurred along the White River in and near Newberry, Indiana. Flooding continued from April. Crop damage estimate is grossly estimated. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stalcup Corner | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Elliston | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Bloomfield | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Furnace | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Hashtown | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Newberry | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mineral City | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Switz City | 5.6 miles | 17 |
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 Plummer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18392644 | 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 441373. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.