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Americus, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47905. The Survey maps it on the Brookston quadrangle. 431 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Americus within Tippecanoe County

Population over time

2 figures

Americus grew from 423 to 431 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
2010423
2020431+8 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Americus between 2007 and 2008, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
15 May 2007Naturalunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tippecanoe County

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 Americus: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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
Rider Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vianco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Americus in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006Tornado (F1)Americus$30,000A weak tornado touched down near Americus and moved eastward, lifting shortly after entering Carroll County. Damage was confined to farm outbuildings.
July 2011Flash FloodAmericus$20,000Several culverts along County Road 800 North were washed out by 5.5 inches of rainfall.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindAmericus$7,000Trees were reported down northeast of Americus and also in the Westpoint area due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindAmericus-Trained spotter estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust at this location. Power was out at his location as well.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAmericus-Numerous trees and limbs were down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindAmericus-Trees down.
May 2011HailAmericus-no account filed
July 2011HailAmericus-no account filed
July 2003Flash FloodAmericus-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindAmericus-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Colburn2.4 miles9
Buck Creek2.6 miles13
Delp3.7 miles13
Battle Ground4.6 miles9
Heath4.7 miles9
Ash Grove5.0 miles9
Birmingham6.4 miles13
Monitor7.3 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 AmericusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4745697The 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 430134. 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.

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.