Bedford, Indiana

• Open map evidence
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• Lawrence County

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 11 records

• Bedford Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 1995
• Helton-Mayo Farmlisted 1995
• Indiana Limestone Company Buildinglisted 1993
• Madden Schoollisted 2000
• C. S. Norton Mansionlisted 1976
• Otis Park and Golf Courselisted 2002
• William A. Ragsdale Houselisted 2002
• Zahn Historic Districtlisted 1998
• Bedford Northside Residential Historic Districtlisted 2024
• Bedford Southern Indiana Railroad Passenger Depotlisted 2021
• Green Hill Cemeterylisted 2025

Bedford grew from 13,413 to 13,792 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.

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.

• 1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:48000
• 1934 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Bedford East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Bedford East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Bedford between 2002 and 2019, burning about 16 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Dark Hollow
• East Oolitic
• Eureka
• Murdock
• Oolitic
• Avoca

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Bedford: 9 producers, 8 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lawrence County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bedford in 86 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 43 thunderstorm wind, 25 hail, 9 flash flood, 4 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 450667. 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.