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Blanford, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47842. The Survey maps it on the Saint Bernice quadrangle. 280 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Blanford within Vermillion County

Population over time

2 figures

Blanford fell from 342 to 280 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.

YearPeople Change
2010342
2020280-62 (-18%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

8,785 words on this township

Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888; History of Parke and Vermillion Counties, Indiana : with Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clinton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clinton Township - 8,785 words.

Storms near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanford in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006HailBlanford-no account filed
April 1996HailBlanford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vermillion 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
West Clinton2.0 miles17
Centenary2.5 miles14
Saint Bernice3.0 miles17
Tighe3.1 miles18
Jonestown3.2 miles17
Easytown3.9 miles18
Sandytown4.1 miles14
Klondyke4.5 miles14

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 BlanfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4925086The 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 431177. 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.