Bolivar, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Chester Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46962. The Survey maps it on the North Manchester South quadrangle.

Bolivar within Wabash County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS North Manchester South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bolivar in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Bolivar	$125,000	Report of 3 damaged residences. Roof off one home. Uprooted trees and power lines down as well.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Bolivar	-	Numerous thunderstorms trained over northeastern Wabash County. Radar and spotter reports confirmed three to more than four inches of rain fell. Numerous roads became covered with flowing water. While the rain ended during the overnight hours, flooding persisted through the first half of the 15th.

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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
Newton	1.8 miles	11
Ijamsville	2.4 miles	11
Servia	2.5 miles	11
Laketon	2.7 miles	11
North Manchester	2.7 miles	10
Urbana	4.6 miles	11
Liberty Mills	5.5 miles	10
Speicherville	7.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 431306. 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.