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Andersonville, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Posey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47024. The Survey maps it on the Clarksburg quadrangle. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.

Andersonville within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Andersonville in 2004, burning about 3 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 October 2004Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Andersonville: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Derbyshire QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Booher Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Franklin County QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Henson Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Holzhause Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Laurel Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Ogle Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Andersonville in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flood, 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
November 2004Tornado (F1)Andersonville$50,000A tornado crossed into northwest Franklin County from Rush County, just north of State Route 244. The tornado moved across US Route 52 near Andersonville, and continued northeast. Several homes and buildings sustained structural damage on County Line, Sanes Creek and Keal Roads. A shed was moved thirty feet, and a barn was completely destroyed. Trees were also downed along the storm path. The tornado lifted about a quarter mile south of the Fayette County line.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$15,000Trees and power lines were downed in the northern portions of Franklin County due to thunderstorm winds.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindAndersonville$2,000no account filed
March 2026FloodAndersonville-Bulltown Road was closed due to high water over the roadway.
January 2019FloodAndersonville-Bulltown Road was closed at Little Salt Creek due to high water.
February 2017HailAndersonville-The hail fell near the intersection of U.S. 52 and State Route 244.
May 2011HailAndersonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Lake View2.3 miles10
Buena Vista4.1 miles10
Midway4.6 miles10
Mount Auburn5.1 miles10
Laurel5.4 miles10
Hamburg8.3 miles10
Metamora8.6 miles10
Peppertown9.1 miles10

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 AndersonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4754253The 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 430167. 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.