Ripley, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46996. The Survey maps it on the Ripley quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Ripley within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ripley: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
	Pulaski Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
	Roth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ripley in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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 1998	Tornado (F2)	Ripley	1 hurt, $1,000,000	4 TRAILER HOMES DESTROYED, SEVERAL OTHERS SUFFERED MINOR TO MAJOR DAMAGE, ONE HOME AND BARN DESTROYED, SEVERAL OTHER HOMES SUFFERED MODERATE DAMAGE. TORNADO STARTED IN RIPLEY AND TRACKED EAST NORTHEAST TO MONTEREY BEFORE IT LIFTED. EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG THE TORNADOES PATH.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ripley	-	A local fire department reported a tree limb was blown down onto a power line, causing it to fall and the power line to smoke.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ripley	-	Law enforcement officials reported numerous trees and power lines down across the northern parts of the county.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ripley	-	Trained spotters reported winds of up to 60 mph with tree limbs down in the area.
June 2011	Hail	Ripley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Beardstown	4.0 miles	10
Denham	4.5 miles	9
Winamac	4.6 miles	10
Vanmeter Park	5.0 miles	10
Lawton	7.2 miles	10
Pulaski	8.6 miles	9
Monterey	10.2 miles	11
Star City	10.5 miles	8

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 Ripley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22059158	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 442056. 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.

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.