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Bruceville, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47516. The Survey maps it on the Oaktown quadrangle. 450 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Bruceville within Knox County

On record in Bruceville

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bruceville fell from 478 to 450 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
2010478
2020450-28 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bruceville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
North Knox Materials, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruceville in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 24 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBruceville$30,000Trees blocking roads across town, trees on powerlines and report of a tree on a home due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBruceville$30,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBruceville$25,000Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto a house.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBruceville$10,000Several trees and utility lines down throughout Knox County in the Bicknell, Bruceville, Edwardsport, and Vincennes areas due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Trees were reported down on or near Highway 41 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Trees were reported down on Old Highway 41, north of Vincennes and south of Oaktown, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBruceville$5,000Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts blew the roof off a structure in this location.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBruceville$4,000A tree and utility lines were downed by thunderstorm winds at State Road 550 near Vine Street.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindBruceville$3,000Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBruceville$2,000Tree of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,500A tree and utility lines were downed on a house due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Tree downed at the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center by thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Tree was downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts and was blocking the road. Numerous power outages noted in nearby areas.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000The Emergency Manager received a report of a tree being down near Bruceville due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000A tree was downed on Davis Road due to damaging thunderstorm gusts.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000A tree was downed at Camp Arthur Road and Smith Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Some utility lines were also reported down around the county.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000Power lines were reported down at 614 Main Street in Bruceville. This is located at State Route 550 on the northern end of town.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBruceville$1,000A tree was reported down across Rod And Gun Club Road due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBruceville$500Two to three inch diameter tree reported down on US Highway 41 at Camp Arthur Road.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindBruceville$500Trees were blown down.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBruceville-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
August 2023HailBruceville-A thunderstorm produced marginally-severe hail in Bruceville.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBruceville-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
March 2009FloodBruceville-Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in and near Vincennes, IN. The river crested 2.6 feet above flood stage at the Red Skelton Bridge (VINI3) river gauge on March 20th with a reading of 20.1 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects low lying agricultural land. River levels, and thus timing of flood, are estimated due to gauge malfunction.
March 2009FloodBruceville-Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in and near Vincennes, IN. The river crested 2.68 feet above flood stage at the Vincennes (VCNI3) river gauge on March 20th with a reading of 18.68 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects low lying agricultural land.
April 2006Flash FloodBruceville-Water was flowing over Highway 67 in several places. No property damage was reported.
March 2026HailBruceville-no account filed
April 2001HailBruceville-no account filed
May 1998HailBruceville-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindBruceville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Emison3.9 miles15
Indian Creek Settlement4.3 miles14
Ragsdale4.9 miles14
Johnstown4.9 miles14
Fritchton5.5 miles18
Busseron5.5 miles15
Bicknell5.8 miles14
Oaktown7.8 miles15

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 BrucevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2171747The 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 431657. 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.