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Alexandria, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46001. It stands on Alexandria Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alexandria quadrangle. 5,149 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Alexandria within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

Alexandria grew from 5,145 to 5,149 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
20105,145
20205,149+4 (+0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

In the county-history sources

618 words on this township

History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Among the public men who have filled county offices are William Wilson, Evan Ellis, Frederick Black, Dr. Pugh, D. K. Carver and Robert Cree. The first brick house was built in 1835 by Peter Edwards on the farm now owned by Abram Miller, south of Alexandria. In the year 1836 some small mills were built on Pipe Creek by James James, Peter Cassell, Daniel Franklin and Henry Hough, They are all numbered among the things of the past with the exception of one, three miles west of Alexandria, and now owned by David Festler. It does a small custom work.

Passage source: History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874.

In the year 1866 William Daniels built an extensive distillery at Alexandria, but it is not now in operation. Within this township lived and died the oldest man in the county, Moses Maynard, an account of whom will be given in another place.

Passage source: History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874.

the LaFayette and Muncie Railroad it will have a market at home in place of hauling their produce to Anderson, of which they are getting tired. When this road is completed Alexandria will not only command its own trade but that of Boone and of Van Buren townships.

Passage source: History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alexandria: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rose Hill Gravel Co., Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ryan, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

32 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexandria in 32 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 16 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Flash FloodAlexandria$1,000,000no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$50,000A Microburst downed numerous trees some on cars and homes.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$15,000A barn was destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$15,000The roof of a truck depot was damaged. Trees were also downed.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$10,000Shingles blown off of a roof due to thunderstorm wind gusts. A tree was also downed nearby.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down including the Chesterfield area. Some trees fell on vehicles.
August 1998Flash FloodAlexandria$5,000Two to five inch rains from the evening of Aug 4 through the afternoon of Aug 5 resulted in Pipe Creek overflowing its bank. This affected some peoples garages and basements on the north side of Alexandria and also in Frankton.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000no account filed
November 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$5,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$3,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts in Alexandria.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindAlexandria$1,000Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Ashland or just east of New Castle.
June 2025HailAlexandria-Report from mping.
June 2025HailAlexandria-Multiple public reports of hail ranging in size from 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter.
February 2009FloodAlexandria-Small streams were out of their banks due to heavy rain. Pipe Creek was within one foot of a bridge (likely State Route 9/South Park Avenue).
February 2009Heavy RainAlexandria-The rainfall total as of 1423 EST was 1.50 inches in Alexandria.
June 2008HailAlexandria-This spotter also estimated winds of 40 to 50 mph at the same time.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Several trees were downed.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Trees and power lines down.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-Two-foot-diameter tree uprooted and blocked road.
May 2005HailAlexandria-no account filed
May 2005HailAlexandria-no account filed
May 2004HailAlexandria-no account filed
May 2004HailAlexandria-no account filed
May 2004HailAlexandria-no account filed
August 2002Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed
June 2001HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 2001HailAlexandria-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindAlexandria-no account filed
May 1994HailAlexandria-no account filed
May 1993HailAlexandria-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Gimco City0.5 miles12
Orestes2.8 miles12
Dundee4.3 miles11
Linwood4.8 miles14
Summitville5.5 miles12
Gilman5.5 miles14
Prosperity5.8 miles14
Frankton6.1 miles11

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 AlexandriaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q521651The 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 430066. 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.