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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 19 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.
- 1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Velpen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9.0 acres | Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge | MALLETT |
| 5 April 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 acres | Hoosier National Forest | PIKE FIRE |
| 28 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 356 acres | Indiana Division of Forestry | INTERLAKE MINE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
13 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stendal | $40,000 | The 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 2025 | Flood | Stendal | $10,000 | Numerous roads remained closed in southeastern Pike County as a result of slow runoff from morning torrential rainfall on already fairly saturated soils. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Stendal | $10,000 | A 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 2025 | Flash Flood | Stendal | $5,000 | Torrential 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 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stendal | $5,000 | A shed was blown apart. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stendal | $3,000 | Several large trees were blown down in Stendal. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Stendal | - | Quarter size hail fell 2 miles south of Stendal. |
| August 2021 | Flood | Stendal | - | 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 2014 | Hail | Stendal | - | The hail was accompanied by wind gusts to 30 mph. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Stendal | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Stendal | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Stendal | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Stendal | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fritz Corner | 2.3 miles | 19 | |
| Zoar | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Pikeville | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Scottsburg | 4.2 miles | 19 | |
| Hartwell | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Augusta | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Spurgeon | 6.1 miles | 18 | |
| Enos Corner | 6.4 miles | 18 |
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 Stendal | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7607506 | 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 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.






