Terry, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Leopold Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47551. It stands on Wheatley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gatchel quadrangle.

Terry within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Gatchel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Gatchel quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Terry between 1994 and 2018, burning about 71 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
Debris and open burning	21
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	POISON CREEK
24 August 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	ST.CROIX
21 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	TIPSAW
5 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	AUBURN FIRE
28 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	SAGEBRUSH
2 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	CHERRY
17 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	QUARRY
7 April 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	CENTRAL PERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Terry in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Terry	-	Numerous trees were reported down across Perry County.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Terry	-	The Perry County Highway Department reported a tree down along State Highway 88 just north of Terry.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ranger	2.8 miles	14
Leopold	2.9 miles	16
Gatchel	2.9 miles	14
Bandon	3.9 miles	14
Apalona	4.6 miles	14
Lilly Dale	5.3 miles	14
Bristow	5.9 miles	14
Branchville	6.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451553. 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.