BlockBobtown, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47274. It stands on East Fork White Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jonesville quadrangle. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1942 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bobtown in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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 2026 | Tornado (EF1) | Bobtown | $300,000 | An EF-1 Tornado with a path length of 3.71 miles and path width of 100 yards moved through this area. The estimated peak winds were 105 mph with damage including snapped trees and two barns destroyed. The tornado touched down just east of Co Road 300E where multiple trees were snapped about 15 to 20 ft above ground. The tornado then moved northeast and caused substantial damage to barns and to at least one home across a three to four mile path before lifting near Co Road 600E to the north of County Road 1000N. The tornado may not have been on the ground continuously for the whole track. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bobtown | $50,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged several barns and dozens of trees. |
| May 2022 | Tornado (EF0) | Bobtown | $10,000 | The weak tornado touched down and within a minute lifted in nearly the same location. A picnic table was blown to the west and a nearby barn had its roof lifted and blown|to the east and south. Some of these metal panels damaged a fence downwind. Nearby grass showed convergence. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bobtown | $2,000 | Tree limbs of unknown size snapped due to thunderstorm wind gusts in several points near this location. This report was received via mPing. |
| July 2015 | Flood | Bobtown | - | White Creek was out of its bank due to moderate to heavy rainfall. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Bobtown | - | The time this event occurred is estimated. |
| June 2021 | Hail | Bobtown | - | no account filed |
| April 2013 | Hail | Bobtown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peters Switch | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Cortland | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Little Acre | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Rockford | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Sunset Parkway | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Seymour | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Hangman Crossing | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Reddington | 6.1 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 Bobtown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4936046 | 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 431275. 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.