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Sulphur, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47118. The Survey maps it on the Beechwood quadrangle. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Sulphur within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur between 1992 and 2019, burning about 124 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1

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
6 September 1999Smokingunder an acreHoosier National ForestREST AREA - NORTH
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresHoosier National ForestREST AREA -WOODS
11 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestHEMLOCK #2
11 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National ForestHEMLOCK #1
29 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestLYNCH
29 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestBARN
24 August 1999Smoking1.5 acresHoosier National ForestUNION
2 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreHoosier National ForestHAY BALE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2015LightningSulphur$300,000A trained spotter reported that lightning struck the Sulphur Pentecostal Church. According to the Crawford County emergency manager, the church was destroyed and determined to be a total loss.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSulphur$25,000The Crawford County emergency manager reported that severe thunderstorm winds blew off a porch from a mobile home and damaged a metal outbuilding.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSulphur$15,000A tree blew down on a power line.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSulphur-Trees were blown over near Sulphur.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSulphur-Local law enforcement reported trees down across the area.
May 2014HailSulphur-A spotter reported a large amount of quarter sized hail that whitened the ground just northeast of Sulfur Springs.
May 2014HailSulphur-A spotter reported 1 inch hail in Sulfur.
June 2006HailSulphur-Public also reported a 45 to 50 mph wind gust.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindSulphur-Trees were downed.
April 1999HailSulphur-1 inch hail fell along I-64 near Sulphur
July 2018HailSulphur-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Sulphur Springs1.1 miles17
Riddle2.7 miles14
Beechwood2.8 miles17
West Fork3.0 miles14
Jericho3.1 miles17
Deuchars4.0 miles17
Switzer Crossroads4.0 miles14
Grantsburg4.2 miles14

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 SulphurAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636502The 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 451522. 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.