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.
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
Enoco Coal Minelisted 2010
Population over time
2 figuresBruceville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 478 | |
| 2020 | 450 | -28 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1943 USGS Oaktown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Oaktown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Oaktown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Knox Materials, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
31 since 1994Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $30,000 | Trees blocking roads across town, trees on powerlines and report of a tree on a home due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $25,000 | Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto a house. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $10,000 | Several trees and utility lines down throughout Knox County in the Bicknell, Bruceville, Edwardsport, and Vincennes areas due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $5,000 | Trees were reported down on or near Highway 41 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $5,000 | Trees were reported down on Old Highway 41, north of Vincennes and south of Oaktown, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $5,000 | Damaging thunderstorm wind gusts blew the roof off a structure in this location. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $4,000 | A tree and utility lines were downed by thunderstorm winds at State Road 550 near Vine Street. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $3,000 | Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $2,000 | Tree of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,500 | A tree and utility lines were downed on a house due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | Tree downed at the Southwest Purdue Agricultural Center by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a road. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | Tree was downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts and was blocking the road. Numerous power outages noted in nearby areas. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | The Emergency Manager received a report of a tree being down near Bruceville due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | A tree was downed on Davis Road due to damaging thunderstorm gusts. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | A 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | Power lines were reported down at 614 Main Street in Bruceville. This is located at State Route 550 on the northern end of town. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $1,000 | A tree was reported down across Rod And Gun Club Road due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $500 | Two to three inch diameter tree reported down on US Highway 41 at Camp Arthur Road. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | $500 | Trees were blown down. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | - | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location. |
| August 2023 | Hail | Bruceville | - | A thunderstorm produced marginally-severe hail in Bruceville. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Bruceville | - | 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 2009 | Flood | Bruceville | - | 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 2006 | Flash Flood | Bruceville | - | Water was flowing over Highway 67 in several places. No property damage was reported. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Bruceville | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Bruceville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Bruceville | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bruceville | - | 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.
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 Bruceville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2171747 | 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 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.






