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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.

Shelburn within Sullivan County

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 figures

Shelburn 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,252
20201,107-145 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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 2001

Regional 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/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
21 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
4 July 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
12 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
27 March 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 March 2003Smoking4.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sullivan County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindShelburn$10,000Power lines were reported down and a tree was on a house due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindShelburn$4,000Several large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindShelburn$1,000Large tree blown onto power lines.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindShelburn$1,000Tree and power line downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008HailShelburn-no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindShelburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sullivan 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
Curryville0.6 miles18
East Shelburn0.8 miles18
Standard1.3 miles18
Massacre1.7 miles18
Jackson Hill1.8 miles16
Wilfred2.3 miles16
Campbell Corner2.6 miles18
Baldridge3.3 miles16

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 ShelburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q185792The 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.