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Bremen, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in German Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46506. It stands on Middle Fork Yellow River. The Survey maps it on the Bremen quadrangle. 4,696 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Bremen within Marshall County

On record in Bremen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bremen grew from 4,588 to 4,696 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
20104,588
20204,696+108 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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

366 words on this township

McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on German Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Clayton was the name of the first town site located in German Township. This was August 21, 1837. The proprietors were Lathrop M. Taylor and Henry Augustine, of South Bend. Mr. Taylor was at that time Clerk of St. Joseph County. The location was about three miles east of the present town of Bremen. Its form was a diagonal, cut up into gorgeous streets and avenues. But the center of gravity did not seem to be in that region, and the project of building a town there was abandoned.

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

The town of Bremen, the present seat of justice of German Township, was platted and laid out by George Beiler October 21, 1851. The original plat contained forty-eight lots. Since that time, the following additions have been made to the original plat: Deitrick's, Heim's, Ringle's, Bauer's first and second, Foltz's continued, Mast's, L. R. Martin's, D. Ringle's, Koontz's, Vanner's and J. P. Huff's. The town was organized under the law authorizing the corporation of towns, at the March term, 1871, of the Board of Commissioners. It was divided into six districts. The officers first elected were: Lewis Theobold, Clerk and Treasurer; David Guyer, Marshal; Chris Seiler, Assessor; John Heckaman, Charles Lehr, Chris Hans, John Koontz, Jacob Walter and Chris Schilt, Trustees. In 1572, the town was re-districted, and the

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on German Township.

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bremen in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 2006LightningBremen2 hurt12 year old girl and 15 year old boy in a paddle boat struck by lightning. Occurred on Lake of the Woods. Children suffered severe burns. Officials reported no signs of lightning damage to paddle boat.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBremen$25,000Large tree of 18 to 24 inches in diameter was down onto a car.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBremen$25,000Trained spotters reported numerous trees down in Bremen. In addition, a local newspaper reported that the Bremen Ford dealership had several showroom windows blown out with some water damage. A nearby Chevrolet dealership found a hold in the rear window on a delivery van, but no evidence of what caused the damage. Damage is estimated in the area at $25,000.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBremen$10,000Trees down on power lines.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindBremen$1,000Trees and power lines reported blown down.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindBremen-Trees down across much of Marshall County, especially from the northern end of the county near Teegarden to La Paz and Bremen along US 6.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBremen-The public reported several small branches and a few larger branches were blown down.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBremen-A tree fell on a powerline on the 300 block of South Whitlock.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBremen-The public reported several trees down as well as at least one power pole in the Bremen area.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindBremen-Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down on South Washington Street.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBremen-The public estimated a 60 mph wind gust.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBremen-Emergency management officials reported several travel campers being destroyed or blown off their blocks.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBremen-Emergency management officials reported a tree down in the 1800 block of U.S. 6.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindBremen-Tree blown over.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBremen-Law enforcement reported trees down in Bremen.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBremen-Large tree blown down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBremen-Several trees down in the northern part of the county,
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBremen-Trees were blown down.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindBremen-Two 6-inch-diameter trees were blown down.
March 2017HailBremen-no account filed
June 2012HailBremen-no account filed
June 2006HailBremen-no account filed
March 2004HailBremen-no account filed
June 1994HailBremen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Lake of the Woods4.3 miles13
Linkville7.7 miles11
La Paz Junction7.8 miles11
Harris8.5 miles11
La Paz8.5 miles11
Inwood9.4 miles11
Bourbon10.5 miles12
Plymouth11.1 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 BremenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q907391The 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 431479. 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.