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Camden, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46917. The Survey maps it on the Flora quadrangle. 593 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Camden within Carroll County

On record in Camden

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 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Camden fell from 611 to 593 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
2010611
2020593-18 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

262 words on this township

History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The early ministers were circuit riders, and held religious services at the school houses. The German Baptist church was organized in Camden in 1829. The Cumberland Presbyterian church was organized in 1830. The Methodist Episcopal church was organized in 1831. Camden Meth¬ odist Episcopal church was organized in 1846. Paint Creek Baptist church was organized in 1832. Camden Baptist church was organized in 1834. St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran church was organized in 1846. Camden is the only town in this township, and is located near the center of the town¬ ship. It was laid out and platted in 1836. It maintains a high school, has two banks, fine churches, good stores and improved streets. Its population is about one thousand. It is an incorporated town. The Vandalia railroad runs through this town.

Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.

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 Jackson Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Camden: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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
Carroll County Highway Dept.StoneProducer
Wallace PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camden in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2006Thunderstorm WindCamden$3,000Highway signs downed.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindCamden$2,000Power lines were down across a home due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2010Flash FloodCamden$750A portion of State Road 218 in Camden was reported to be covered in water.
June 2017FloodCamden$250Minor street flooding was observed in this location due to heavy rainfall.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindCamden-Thunderstorm gust observed at County Roads 500 North and 225 East. Hail about 0.5 inches in diameter lasted about 5 minutes. Winds blew down a 2 inch limb from a healthy hardwood tree on North Monroe Street in Camden.
August 2012HailCamden-The hail fell for three minutes.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCamden-Trees were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindCamden-Trees were downed.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindCamden-Trees were downed at a residence.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCamden-no account filed
March 1997Thunderstorm WindCamden-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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Flax2.6 miles10
Rockfield2.9 miles10
Flora4.3 miles9
Burrows5.0 miles10
Bringhurst5.8 miles9
Harley Siding6.4 miles9
Lockport6.5 miles10
Harley7.1 miles9

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 CamdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1376861The 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 432002. 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.