BlockArcadia, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46030. It stands on Possum Run. The Survey maps it on the Arcadia quadrangle. 1,515 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresArcadia fell from 1,666 to 1,515 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 | 1,666 | |
| 2020 | 1,515 | -151 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Arcadia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,516 words on this townshipHistory of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
E.\RI,V Iin.Mis, In the early days of eiiiigralion, the liio.st direct lino between two stations was the object sought by the emigrant, and Strawtown was, perhaps, tho most noted point on the line usually traveled by emigrant trains. Here they could find the provisions to replenish their supply and last until ihcy could reach the scltlcmcnls on Wild Cat Prairie, in Tippecanoe County. The most direct route between Strawtown and the latter point w,is indicated by an Indian "truce," which in time became a well-defined road, from tlie frci[uency with which it was traveled, but its course was rambling and irregular, as the driver would often bo compelled to make a circuit in order to ovoid a iniidhole. About the year 1830, this road was surveyed by order of tho State, and was oderward known as the Newcastle and La Fayette Slate road. About the
Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880.
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 Jackson Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.
Storms near this place
19 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcadia in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2013 | Flood | Arcadia | 2 killed, $25,000 | A 64-year-old Arcadia man died when he tried to cross a flooded Mount Pleasant Road, south of 266th Street. His vehicle was swept off the road around 7:45 p.m. on the 19th and moved about 100 yards downstream in Cicero Creek. ||A 42-year-old Arcadia man and his car was swept away in the same location near Cicero Creek on the early morning of the 20th. He was found dead on the morning of the 21st. There was a report of road blocks being across the street at the time.||The flooding was due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. |
| September 2003 | Tornado (F1) | Arcadia | $300,000 | An F1 tornado cut a 2 and a quarter mile path across northern Hamilton near Arcadia damaging 1 home and destroying several barns. The tornado also knocked down numerous trees there. |
| April 2007 | Tornado (EF2) | Arcadia | $150,000 | This tornado touched down at 7:25 P.M. EDT, as reported by trained spotters, about 3 miles east of Arcadia . The tornado continued a path to the northeast, lifting around 7:30 P.M. EDT. An EF2 rating was assigned to this tornado given the significant destruction of a barn, and the tornado moving a dual wheel pickup truck/trailer rig nearly fifteen feet. Winds were estimated near 120 mph. Several other outbuildings, houses, barns, vehicles, trees, sheds, and garages suffered damage as well. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $50,000 | no account filed |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $10,000 | Numerous trees reported down across Hamilton County. Location is approximate due to a lack of detail on any specific location for damages. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | $10,000 | A roof was peeled off of a barn due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Arcadia | $500 | High water was reported on 266th Street, just west of Arcadia, due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Arcadia | - | Hail was ongoing at time of report, ranging from dime sized to just larger than quarters. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | A thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was observed in this location. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | A 82 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | Trees were downed. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| April 2011 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| February 2006 | Hail | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Arcadia | - | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Arcadia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millersburg | 1.3 miles | 11 | |
| Atlanta | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Cicero | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Walnut Grove | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Omega | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Clare | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Strawtown | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Deming | 5.8 miles | 15 |
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 Arcadia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q631422 | 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 430234. 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.
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.