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West Terre Haute, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47885. It stands on East Little Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Terre Haute quadrangle. 2,157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

West Terre Haute within Vigo County

On record in West Terre Haute

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

West Terre Haute fell from 2,236 to 2,157 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,236
20202,157-79 (-4%)

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

40 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of West Terre Haute between 2001 and 2005, burning about 295 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony14
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 July 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
23 June 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
19 June 2004Smokingunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Vigo County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of West Terre Haute: 4 producers, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Terre Haute City Eng.StoneProducer
Harlan FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
S. and G. Excavating PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Terre Haute North DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Terre Haute SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whitlock Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Terre Haute in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2010: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindWest Terre Haute$5,000Pieces of roofing material were blown off buildings due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWest Terre Haute$2,000Numerous eight inch diameter limbs and power lines were reported down along US Highway 40 West.
April 2007LightningWest Terre Haute$1,000Lightning set fire to a vacant garage at 600 South 7th Street. The garage was completely destroyed.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindWest Terre Haute-no account filed
November 2002Thunderstorm WindWest Terre Haute-no account filed
July 1996HailWest Terre Haute-no account filed
July 1996HailWest Terre Haute-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindWest Terre Haute-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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
Toad Hop0.8 miles17
Ferguson Hill1.2 miles17
Larimer Hill1.3 miles17
Taylorville1.4 miles17
Whitcomb Heights1.6 miles17
Terre Haute1.9 miles17
Liggett2.0 miles17
Marion Heights2.1 miles17

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 West Terre HauteAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2684949The 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 445815. 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.