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Alfordsville, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Reeve Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47553. It stands on East Fork Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alfordsville quadrangle. 65 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 512 feet above sea level.

Alfordsville within Daviess County

On record in Alfordsville

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Alfordsville fell from 101 to 65 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
2010101
202065-36 (-36%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

321 words on this township

History of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. ; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Reeve Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Reeve Township - 321 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Alfordsville: 4 occurrences. 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
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfordsville in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2010: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAlfordsville$3,000Power lines were downed and power outages were reported across the county.
June 2010Flash FloodAlfordsville$750The town of Alfordsville was inaccessible for a brief period of time due to high water. As of 630 AM EDT, only one road was passible in and out of Alfordsville.
June 2004HailAlfordsville-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindAlfordsville-no account filed
April 2002Flash FloodAlfordsville-no account filed
July 2001Flash FloodAlfordsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Pennyville3.2 miles14
Corning4.0 miles14
Waco5.2 miles14
Hudsonville6.8 miles14
Glendale6.9 miles14
Cannelburg8.0 miles13
Montgomery8.7 miles13
Black Oak9.9 miles13

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 AlfordsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q952004The 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 430072. 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.