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Siberia, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Clark Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47515. The Survey maps it on the Bristow quadrangle.

Siberia within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

17 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Siberia between 1993 and 2014, burning about 166 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresHoosier National ForestI-64
6 August 2001Smokingunder an acreHoosier National ForestI-64
6 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestANDERSON VALLEY
6 April 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresHoosier National ForestBEARD CEMETARY FIRE
3 April 2007Debris and open burning4.2 acresHoosier National ForestREDBUD FIRE
18 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoosier National ForestU-38
11 April 1993Recreation and ceremony25 acresHoosier National Forestnot named
10 April 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHoosier National ForestPOWER BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Siberia in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
May 2022HailSiberia-There was quarter size hail on Interstate 64 near Mile Marker 70.
April 2015FloodSiberia-Law enforcement reported water running over Highway 145 south of Birdseye.
February 2008Flash FloodSiberia-Parts of State Highway 145 north of Interstate 64 were closed due to high water.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindSiberia-Numerous trees and limbs were blown down. An amateur radio operator estimated a 65 mph wind gust.
September 2001HailSiberia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Kitterman Corners2.2 miles14
Adyeville3.8 miles16
Fosters Ridge3.8 miles14
Uniontown4.0 miles14
Sassafras4.1 miles14
Saint Josephs Shrine5.9 miles16
Bristow6.8 miles14
Doolittle Mills7.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451460. 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.