Banquo, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46940. The Survey maps it on the Mount Etna quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Banquo within Huntington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1950 USGS Mount Etna quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Mount Etna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Mount Etna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

4,463 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Wayne Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Storms near this place

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Banquo in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Banquo	-	Local fire officials reported power lines down across the roadway.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Banquo	-	Eight to ten inch diameter limbs down. A few of the limbs were semi-rotten. A few 2 to 2.5 inch diameter trees are downed. Minor structural damage reported.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Banquo	-	Several county and state roads were covered with water and impassable across the county as two to four inches of rain fell in a few hours, overwhelming local streams, creeks and ditches. Some of the roads impacted included State Route 124, east of State Route 5, County Road 1000 North, east of Meridian, County Road 1000 N east of State Route 5 and near the intersection of State Routes 218 and 105. In addition, water backed up on the Salamonie River, northwest of Warren, where at least a quarter mile long portion of East Flowing Well Road was under water as the flood waters rapidly exceeded the banks of the river.
June 2015	Flood	Banquo	-	Several rounds of rainfall caused an extended period of flooding on many of the roads across the county. Even after the rain ended, road closures and evacuations persisted as water levels either remained high or continued to rise after the causative events. Numerous creeks and ditches ran over their banks adding to the flooding issues. Portions of State Routes 124, 5, 124, 3, 218, 9 all had either high water or water rapidly flowing over the roadways, causing partial or full closures. Several county roads were also impacted. Portions of Roanoke Park were also underwater.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Banquo	-	Emergency management officials reported a tree down and several sheets of siding off a building on South County Road 800 West. Steel pole barn doors were also blown off on West 1100 South.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Banquo	-	Emergency management officials reported a 10 by 20 foot section of shingles off a building at Gardens of Memory Cemetery near State Route 210 and 9. Spotter in the area estimated 65 mph winds.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Banquo	-	Emergency management reported a barn blown down southwest of Banquo.
June 2011	Hail	Banquo	-	no account filed
November 2011	Hail	Banquo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Huntington 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Plain	3.9 miles	13
Mount Etna	4.4 miles	13
Lancaster	7.0 miles	13
River	7.2 miles	13
Milo	8.5 miles	13
Harlansburg	8.7 miles	13
Majenica	10.2 miles	13
Warren	10.2 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 Banquo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4857093	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 430476. 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.