BlockAmboy, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46911. It stands on Sugar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amboy quadrangle. 317 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresAmboy fell from 384 to 317 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 | 384 | |
| 2020 | 317 | -67 (-17%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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
- 1962 USGS Amboy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Amboy in 2004, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amboy in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | $25,000 | no account filed |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | The public reported tree branches down, blocking secondary roads in Amboy. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | Emergency management officials reported a power pole down on State Road 19, just north of Amboy. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | Amateur radio operators reported trees and tree limbs down, blocking some local roads in Amboy. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amboy | - | A three foot diameter tree was blown down onto State Road 19 near Amboy. |
| April 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Amboy | - | Emergency Management reported a brief tornado touchdown near Amboy. NWS survey found swirling in field. Tornado was skipping as it moved east northeast. Path length was about one mile near Amboy with with no discernable damage and rated F0. |
| June 2020 | Hail | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Hail | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| March 2012 | Hail | Amboy | - | no account filed |
| May 1994 | Hail | Amboy | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Grove | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Converse | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Santa Fe | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| McGrawsville | 4.9 miles | 13 | |
| New Santa Fe | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Wawpecong | 6.2 miles | 10 | |
| Loree | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Oakley | 8.2 miles | 13 |
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 Amboy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q458534 | 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 430130. 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.