Shelburn, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Curry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47879. It lies near Curry Prairie. The Survey maps it on the Shelburn quadrangle. 1,107 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 541 feet above sea level.
On record in Shelburn
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
Population over time
2 figuresShelburn fell from 1,252 to 1,107 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,252 | |
| 2020 | 1,107 | -145 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1942 USGS Shelburn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Shelburn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Shelburn quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Shelburn between 2001 and 2005, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 21 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 4 July 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 June 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 12 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 27 March 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 22 March 2003 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shelburn in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelburn | $10,000 | Power lines were reported down and a tree was on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelburn | $4,000 | Several large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelburn | $1,000 | Large tree blown onto power lines. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelburn | $1,000 | Tree and power line downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Shelburn | - | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelburn | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Curryville | 0.6 miles | 18 | |
| East Shelburn | 0.8 miles | 18 | |
| Standard | 1.3 miles | 18 | |
| Massacre | 1.7 miles | 18 | |
| Jackson Hill | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Wilfred | 2.3 miles | 16 | |
| Campbell Corner | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Baldridge | 3.3 miles | 16 |
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 Shelburn | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q185792 | 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 443342. 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.








