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Temple, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Sterling Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47118. The Survey maps it on the English quadrangle. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Temple within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Temple between 1999 and 2012, burning about 198 acres in total. 1 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism157 acresHoosier National ForestABC MISCELLANEOUS
20 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresHoosier National ForestLIVE FIRE
8 July 2012Naturalunder an acreHoosier National ForestSNAG FIRE
13 July 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresHoosier National ForestRIDDLE
30 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoosier National ForestMILLER
9 April 2001Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresHoosier National ForestSENNS RD.
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestHAMMOND
29 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestARNOLD BROWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Temple: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Crawford County PitStoneProducer
Marengo Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Temple QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Temple in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
March 2023Flash FloodTemple-The road was washed out at the intersection of Temple Road and Mulzer Quarry Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTemple-Trees and power lines were down in English.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindTemple-Local law enforcement officials reported to the NWS that trees fell down across Bacon Ridge Road.

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
English2.7 miles14
Marengo4.2 miles14
Curby4.4 miles14
Tunnel Hill4.8 miles13
Grantsburg4.8 miles14
Switzer Crossroads5.2 miles14
Brownstown5.3 miles15
Hogtown5.3 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 TempleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7698407The 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 444626. 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.