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Youngs Creek, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Greenfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47454. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Valeene quadrangle.

Youngs Creek within Orange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

26 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Youngs Creek between 1993 and 2016, burning about 115 acres in total. None 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
16 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestSPRINGS FIRE
11 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreHoosier National Forestnot named
30 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestBEECHGROVE
11 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHoosier National ForestPINE VALLEY
2 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestAIRPORT
4 March 2006Debris and open burning20 acresHoosier National ForestPATOKA LAKE
22 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.6 acresHoosier National ForestGRIMES LAKE
21 March 2009Debris and open burning1.5 acresHoosier National ForestORANGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Youngs Creek in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindYoungs Creek-There were multiple trees down in Greenfield Township near West County Road 560 South.
June 2025HailYoungs Creek-Quarter size hail was observed near the intersection of West County Road 525 South and County Road 550 South.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Youngs Creek-An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado with estimated wind speeds up to 80 mph. Along the path, several trees were uprooted along W CR390S. A couple of trees were snapped. A metal roof was peeled off of a small outbuilding.
April 2012HailYoungs Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Orange 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
Pine Valley2.4 miles15
Greenbrier3.3 miles15
Ethel5.3 miles15
Fargo5.3 miles15
Bacon5.6 miles15
Paoli5.7 miles14
Braxtons Siding5.7 miles14
Valeene5.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451651. 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.