BlockBlountsville, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stoney Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47354. The Survey maps it on the Modoc quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBlountsville fell from 134 to 98 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 | 134 | |
| 2020 | 98 | -36 (-27%) |
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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blountsville in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blountsville | $18,000 | Six trees and six power poles were reported down by the emergency manager due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| January 2008 | Flash Flood | Blountsville | $10,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding in Henry County and closed several roads throughout the county. The Blountsville Fire Department had to pull one car out of a flooded area. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blountsville | $5,000 | Trees were downed in this location due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blountsville | $1,000 | Numerous 4 to 6-inch tree limbs were snapped due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mooreland | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Rogersville | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Messick | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Luray | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Hillsboro | 8.0 miles | 11 | |
| Springport | 8.2 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Summit | 8.6 miles | 13 | |
| Van Nuys | 9.2 miles | 11 |
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 Blountsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2657606 | 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 431210. 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.