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Windom, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Lost River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47581. It stands on Grassy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rusk quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Windom within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Windom between 2001 and 2020, burning about 27 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 burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
20 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestWINDOM
11 March 2001Smoking17 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BADEN POND
10 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresHoosier National ForestWEST BADEN TRASH
10 March 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoosier National ForestWAGGONER CHAPEL
8 February 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresHoosier National ForestRUSK FIRE
19 November 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreHoosier National ForestCANARY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Windom: 34 occurrences, 17 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Opening No. 11IronOccurrence
Opening No. 12IronOccurrence
Opening No. 12IronProspect
Opening No. 13IronOccurrence
Opening No. 13IronProspect
Opening No. 17IronOccurrence
Opening No. 17IronProspect
Opening No. 18IronOccurrence
Opening No. 18IronProspect
Opening No. 19IronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windom in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindWindom$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees across southern Martin County, with power lines also downed in Lost River Township.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindWindom$2,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Yenne1.8 miles12
Rusk2.5 miles12
Pleasant Valley4.0 miles15
Lacy4.3 miles15
Hindostan Falls4.5 miles12
South Martin4.5 miles12
Natchez5.5 miles13
Ironton6.2 miles15

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 Q8024319The 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 451638. 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.