Burlington, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Burlington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46915. The Survey maps it on the Burlington quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Burlington within Carroll County

On record in Burlington

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 2 records

American House Hotellisted 2018
Burlington Township No. 9 Schoollisted 2019

Population over time

2 figures

Burlington fell from 603 to 517 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	603
2020	517	-86 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Burlington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

148 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Burlington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Burlington Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burlington in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$40,000	Tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts onto a house. Other trees in the yard snapped.
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$15,000	A barn roof was torn off, multiple large trees were downed, and a power line was down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$6,000	Numerous trees and power lines were down on roadways due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Burlington	$5,000	County Dispatch reported several roads in Burlington had water flowing over them with a focus on the south side of town due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$3,000	Two chicken houses were destroyed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Burlington	$3,000	Roads were reportedly washed out and covered with water at the intersections of State Route 29 and County Road 325 South and 325 South.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$2,000	An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. Two foot diameter trees were reported to be uprooted as well.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	$700	A 6-inch diameter tree was blown down on State Road 29 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2006	Hail	Burlington	-	No damage estimates were available.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Trees were downed.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	A grain bin was blown down just south of Burlington.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	Large trees were downed, and damage was done to a building at the park. A house lost the canopy over the porch. No damage estimates were available.
May 2007	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Burlington	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Burlington	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flood	Burlington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Carrollton	2.6 miles	8
Sharon	5.1 miles	8
Lexington	5.2 miles	10
Wheeling	5.9 miles	8
Adams Mill	6.1 miles	9
Cutler	6.9 miles	9
Ray	7.2 miles	9
Bringhurst	7.6 miles	9

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 Burlington	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2014557	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 431841. 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.