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Taggart, Indiana

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hamblen Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47448. It stands on Sweetwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beanblossom quadrangle. It stands 676 feet above sea level.

Taggart within Brown County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Taggart between 2007 and 2016, burning about 328 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning1

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
22 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresIndiana Division of ForestryINCOMING FIRE
22 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined156 acresIndiana Division of ForestryTOO LATE FIRE
16 November 2016Debris and open burning6.5 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BAKER HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brown County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Taggart: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lambert Dimension Sandstone QuarryFlagstonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Brown County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taggart in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindTaggart$50,000Widespread thunderstorm straight-line winds of 80 to 90 mph created significant uprooted and broken trees within a wide area as well along the damage path of a nearby brief, EF0 tornado.
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Taggart$30,000The first tornado to impact central Indiana on May 21st, an EF0 tornado, downed numerous trees in a convergent pattern through a densely wooded area. Peak winds estimated at 84 mph.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindTaggart$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed individual trees on Salt Creek Road and Valley Branch Road and Railroad Road.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindTaggart-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindTaggart-Trees were downed.
June 2005HailTaggart-Golf ball hail was reported at Sweetwater Lake.
November 2013HailTaggart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brown 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
Gatesville0.4 miles23
Sweetwater Lake2.7 miles23
Cordry Sweetwater Lakes3.2 miles23
Clarksdale4.3 miles21
Gnaw Bone5.0 miles21
Mount Liberty5.4 miles21
Spearsville5.6 miles23
Beanblossom5.9 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q7675214The 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 444544. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.