BlockBurns City, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47553. The Survey maps it on the Odon quadrangle. 114 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBurns City fell from 117 to 114 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 | 117 | |
| 2020 | 114 | -3 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1950 USGS Odon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Odon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burns City in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burns City | $10,000 | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Burns City | $500 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Hail | Burns City | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bramble | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Crane | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Indian Springs | 6.7 miles | 13 | |
| Cale | 7.4 miles | 13 | |
| Dover Hill | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Scenic Hill | 10.0 miles | 13 | |
| Loogootee | 10.1 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Olive | 10.3 miles | 22 |
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 Burns City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5000063 | 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 431854. 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.