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Stendal, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lockhart Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47585. The Survey maps it on the Augusta quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Stendal within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Stendal between 2002 and 2006, burning about 425 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresPatoka River National Wildlife RefugeMALLETT
5 April 2002Arson/incendiarism60 acresHoosier National ForestPIKE FIRE
28 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined356 acresIndiana Division of ForestryINTERLAKE MINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stendal in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindStendal$40,000The roof of a house was damaged, along with the porch roof. Branches were blown down. An auto was struck by large tree branches and severely damaged.
July 2025FloodStendal$10,000Numerous roads remained closed in southeastern Pike County as a result of slow runoff from morning torrential rainfall on already fairly saturated soils.
August 2000LightningStendal$10,000A lightning strike left Stendal without phone service for three days. A total of 536 customers were affected by the outage. Lightning also struck an oil tank near Spurgeon. The explosion propelled the tank about 50 yards.
July 2025Flash FloodStendal$5,000Torrential rainfall produced flooding in much of Pike County with water across county roads, flooding of fields, and ditches and creeks overflowing banks. The report came in from southeastern Pike County which received 2-3.5 of rainfall during the morning with hourly rainfall peaking at a radar estimated 1.5-2.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindStendal$5,000A shed was blown apart.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindStendal$3,000Several large trees were blown down in Stendal.
March 2025HailStendal-Quarter size hail fell 2 miles south of Stendal.
August 2021FloodStendal-The two-hour rainfall total was 2.91 inches at a co-operative observer site north of Stendal. Minor flooding of creeks and ditches was observed..
October 2014HailStendal-The hail was accompanied by wind gusts to 30 mph.
March 2019HailStendal-no account filed
March 2012HailStendal-no account filed
June 2011HailStendal-no account filed
May 2003HailStendal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Fritz Corner2.3 miles19
Zoar3.8 miles16
Pikeville4.2 miles16
Scottsburg4.2 miles19
Hartwell4.3 miles19
Augusta5.1 miles19
Spurgeon6.1 miles18
Enos Corner6.4 miles18

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 StendalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7607506The 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 444123. 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.