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Borden, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Wood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47106. It stands on Fordyce Brook. The Survey maps it on the Borden quadrangle. 786 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Borden within Clark County

Population over time

2 figures

Borden fell from 808 to 786 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
2010808
2020786-22 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Borden: 8 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jorris Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Miller Sand PitSilicaPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

18 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Borden in 18 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flood, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2004Tornado (F2)Borden$1,000,000A tornado moved from Washington County, Indiana into western Clark County in the vicinity of Borden. It briefly reached F2 intensity in the Borden area, blowing the roofs off several homes. The roof was blown off an elementary school while a graduation was in progress, but no injuries were reported. In all, the tornado destroyed or damaged 10 homes in the Borden area. The tornado continued moving east southeast across Clark County, lifting intermittently. Several witnesses spotted the tornado as it moved south of Charlestown. It caused some F1 damage in the Stacy Road and Bethany Road areas, before lifting southeast of Charlestown.
March 2017Tornado (EF1)Borden$200,000A small tornado touched down in the backyard of a home about a quarter mile west from the caution light on Indiana Highway 60 and uprooted trees and caused roof damage to the home. The tornado moved along Muddy Fork and snapped or uprooted numerous trees. Then the tornado crossed Indiana Highway 60 where it was witnessed by people in the Buckboard Diner. Next, the tornado removed the roof of the older building next to the cafe and a garage behind the cafe. It threw its debris into a small church and removed some of its roof. No other damage in the narrow path was seen beyond this point.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBorden$150,000A NWS Storm Survey team concluded that intermittent pockets of straight line winds occurred along a 10 mile path across portions of Clark County. A roof was removed from an abandoned building in Borden. Winds blew out glass and a screen covered porch off the back of a house at Deam Lake near Borden. The sporadic damage continued east along and near Indiana 60 past Bennettsville, where a tree was toppled on to the roof of a house. Peak wind speeds were estimated between 60 and 80 mph.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBorden$20,000Local amateur radio reported widespread area of tree damage with building materials in the streets.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindBorden$10,000Strong winds associated with a line of storms shifted a barn off of its foundation. Portions of several sheds were blown several hundred feet. Numerous trees were toppled.
September 2009Tornado (EF1)Borden$10,000The tornado uprooted and snapped several large trees and destroyed a small shed on Daisy Hill Road north of Borden. One snapped tree came down onto the roof of a home doing considerable damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBorden$3,000Local media reported that a tree fell onto and damaged a back porch of a home.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBorden-Trees were down on Daisy Hill Road.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBorden-There was a large tree down blocking State Road 60.
April 2017FloodBorden-State officials reported roads closed due to flooding.
January 2016FloodBorden-Heavy rain during the last half of December 2015 pushed the Ohio River at Tell City into minor flood. The river remained above flood stage into early January before dropping below flood stage on January 2nd.
April 2015FloodBorden-Heavy rain brought the Blue River at Fredericksburg into flood. The river crested at 21.79 feet feet on April 3rd and then fell below flood stage early on April 4th.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBorden-The local broadcast media reported a large tree down near the small town of Bordon.
May 2011Flash FloodBorden-Water spilled out of the Borden reservoir, flooding small roads and bridges along Muddy Fork.
July 2009Flash FloodBorden-Water was covering many streets in town. The creek in Borden Park was out of its banks and flooding the park.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindBorden-Several large pine trees were downed along State Highway 60.
October 2020HailBorden-no account filed
February 2006Thunderstorm WindBorden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Chestnut Hill0.9 miles12
Broom Hill3.8 miles12
Carwood4.5 miles14
Starlight4.5 miles12
Wilson6.3 miles14
Bennettsville7.8 miles14
Blue Lick8.0 miles11
New Liberty8.1 miles11

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 BordenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2393774The 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 431353. 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.

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.