BlockAkron, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Henry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46910. The Survey maps it on the Akron quadrangle. 1,125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.
On record in Akron
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 3 records
Prill Schoollisted 1981
Utter-Gerig Round Barnlisted 1990- Akron Historic Districtlisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresAkron fell from 1,167 to 1,125 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,167 | |
| 2020 | 1,125 | -42 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Akron quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Akron: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disko Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
17 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akron in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akron | $10,000 | A tornado flipped over four mobile office homes south of Rochester. Two men were injured when a tree fell on their car and another man was injured when a limb flew through the window of his home. Trees were blown down at Akron. Some trees were down on cars. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akron | $1,000 | A tree down. Time estimated from radar. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Akron | $1,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Hail | Akron | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Tornado (EF3) | Akron | - | This is a continuation of a tornado that crossed County Road 1600 N between County Roads 100 and 175 East in Miami county and into Fulton County. Tornado continued off to the ENE weakening as it crossed 1600 N and 100 E in Fulton county. Tornado then turned northeastward as it traveled just north of the Miami/Fulton county line causing sporadic damage to several farm buildings. Tornado continued to slowly |weaken in intensity as it crossed SR 114. As the tornado crossed CR 700 W it re-intensified for a time crossing SR 15 south of CR 1400 N with extensive damage to a hog confinement facility west of SR 15 and significant damage to a farm property |east of SR 15. From here the tornado rapidly weakened eastward and lifted near CR 400 W. The maximum intensity of the tornado in Fulton county was EF1. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Akron | - | Water was flowing over the road. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Akron | - | Hail to the size of pennies accumulated around an inch on local roads. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akron | - | County officials reported several trees down. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Akron | - | Law enforcement officials reported golf ball size hail. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akron | - | Trained spotters reported large limbs down in the Akron area. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Akron | - | Hail increased from the size of quarters up to golf ball size in the town of Akron. |
| July 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Akron | - | Numerous reports were received of well developed cold air funnel clouds in and around the Akron area as a result of interacting boundaries. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akron | - | Emergency management reported trees down in Akron. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Akron | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Akron | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Hail | Akron | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Akron | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Athens | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Green Oak | 8.8 miles | 10 | |
| Big Hill | 8.9 miles | 11 | |
| Talma | 9.8 miles | 11 | |
| Nyona Lake | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Rochester | 10.1 miles | 11 | |
| Tiosa | 12.3 miles | 11 |
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 Akron | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2290421 | The 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 430038. 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.
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.