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.
Population over time
2 figuresAlexandria 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5,145 | |
| 2020 | 5,149 | +4 (+0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 12 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
618 words on this townshipHistory 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 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Hill Gravel Co., Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ryan, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
32 since 1993Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Alexandria | $1,000,000 | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $50,000 | A Microburst downed numerous trees some on cars and homes. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $15,000 | A barn was destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $15,000 | The roof of a truck depot was damaged. Trees were also downed. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $10,000 | Shingles blown off of a roof due to thunderstorm wind gusts. A tree was also downed nearby. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were blown down including the Chesterfield area. Some trees fell on vehicles. |
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Alexandria | $5,000 | Two 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 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $5,000 | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $5,000 | no account filed |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $3,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts in Alexandria. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines in Ashland or just east of New Castle. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Alexandria | - | Report from mping. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Alexandria | - | Multiple public reports of hail ranging in size from 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter. |
| February 2009 | Flood | Alexandria | - | 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 2009 | Heavy Rain | Alexandria | - | The rainfall total as of 1423 EST was 1.50 inches in Alexandria. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Alexandria | - | This spotter also estimated winds of 40 to 50 mph at the same time. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | Several trees were downed. |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | Trees and power lines down. |
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | Two-foot-diameter tree uprooted and blocked road. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Alexandria | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Alexandria | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gimco City | 0.5 miles | 12 | |
| Orestes | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Dundee | 4.3 miles | 11 | |
| Linwood | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Summitville | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Gilman | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Prosperity | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Frankton | 6.1 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 Alexandria | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q521651 | 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 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.



