BlockAmo, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46103. The Survey maps it on the Clayton quadrangle. 408 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.
On record in Amo
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
Amo THI & E Interurban Depot/Substationlisted 2007
Population over time
2 figuresAmo grew from 401 to 408 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 | 401 | |
| 2020 | 408 | +7 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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 Clayton quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Clayton quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,757 words on this townshipHistory of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Clay Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In political sentiment the people of Clay have always been over¬ whelmingly Republican, and before the birth of that party they were as loyal to its predecessor, the Whig party. The township was also a stronghold of free-soilism during the days of Clay and Webster, and in the campaigns of 1848 and 1852 many more votes were given to the Free-Soil than to the Democratic candidates. Following is the vote cast at each presidential election from 1848 to 1884, inclusive:
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885.
Clay Township* is the smallest in the county, but is the most ! densely populated (eighty to the square mile) and has the most villages and postofficee, which are five in number, three on the Vandalia line and two on the Indiana & St. Louis Railroad.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885.
Pecksburg, which was named in honor of the first President of the Yandalia Railroad, is near the east line of the township, on section 31. It has one store, kept by Abraham Bowen, who is also Postmaster and station agent. There is also a church, of the Lutheran denomination, where services are usually held every other Sunday. William Tinster preached for several years, and in 1882 removed to Mud Creek. At present writing there is no regular pastor, the last one having been Rev. Mr. Keller, now in Kentucky. The congregation numbers about fifty. Sunday-school sessions are held every Sunday, under charge of Allen Reitzel. Pecksburg is not prosperous as a village, and has now but fifty in¬ habitants.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885.
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 Clay Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Amo in 2010, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | BLANTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amo in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amo | $1,500 | Power lines were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report was received via social media. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amo | - | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated in this location. This report was relayed by the Hendricks County EMA. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Amo | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Amo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springtown | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Pecksburg | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Coatesville | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hadley | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Reno | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Stilesville | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Summit | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Clayton | 4.8 miles | 12 |
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 Amo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2323195 | 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 430143. 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.