Carmel, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46032. It stands on Little Cool Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fishers quadrangle. 99,757 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Carmel within Hamilton County

On record in Carmel

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 5 records

Population over time

2 figures

Carmel grew from 79,191 to 99,757 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	79,191
2020	99,757	+20,566 (+26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1952 USGS Fishers quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Fishers quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Fishers quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Fishers quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

6,892 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Clay 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 Clay Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Carmel: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Indianapolis 521 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Carmel 512 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Indianapolis 513 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Road Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

60 of 101 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carmel in 101 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 48 hail, 34 thunderstorm wind, 16 lightning, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 1999	Lightning	Carmel	1 killed	A 32 year old male was struck by an isolated cloud-to-ground lightning bolt and became comatose. He died a week later. The man was struck while standing next to a tree in his yard.
May 1996	Lightning	Carmel	1 hurt, $500,000	no account filed
June 2002	Lightning	Carmel	1 hurt	Lightning struck a man in a parking lot.
May 1998	Lightning	Carmel	$400,000	Lightning struck 5 Carmel area homes igniting fires.
July 2001	Lightning	Carmel	$350,000	no account filed
May 1996	Lightning	Carmel	$120,000	no account filed
August 2000	Lightning	Carmel	$110,000	no account filed
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$100,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$100,000	no account filed
August 2000	Lightning	Carmel	$95,000	no account filed
September 2001	Lightning	Carmel	$85,000	A house was struck by lightning. The fire was contained to the basement by the rest of the house received heavy smoke damage.
August 2000	Lightning	Carmel	$81,000	no account filed
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$50,000	Several trees knocked down due to thunderstorm wind gusts. One tree had fallen on a home.
June 2019	Flash Flood	Carmel	$50,000	Water rescues were occurring across parts of Carmel due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
May 2006	Lightning	Carmel	$50,000	A lightning strike ignited a fire in a residence which severely damaged the roof, attic, and the upstairs ceiling and hallway.
July 2001	Lightning	Carmel	$50,000	no account filed
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$35,000	Multiple reports of trees being downed across Carmel due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. There were several reports of trees and large tree limbs on houses.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$25,000	Trees and tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2000	Lightning	Carmel	$20,000	no account filed
January 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$15,000	A tree was uprooted and fell on a house due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report came in via Twitter.
February 2008	Lightning	Carmel	$15,000	Lightning struck a flexible natural gas line that went to the basement. The homeowner was treated by medics for smoke inhalation, but was not taken to the hospital.
July 2005	Lightning	Carmel	$12,000	Lightning sparked a fire which damaged a home. The damage amount is estimated.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$10,000	Multiple trees downed onto power lines by thunderstorm wind gusts across Carmel.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$10,000	Numerous trees were reported down in downtown Carmel due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Trees were also reported down on buildings. No information about damage to these buildings was received.
August 2016	Hail	Carmel	$8,000	Multiple trees and power lines were down near this location in addition to the large hail.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$7,000	A large tree snapped and fell onto a house in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Several power lines were downed as well.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$5,000	The Home Place area had numerous trees down blocking roads due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed at least one large tree on the east side of Carmel with multiple large branches downed throughout the area. About 15 minutes prior, winds gusted to 55 mph in Westfield.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$2,500	Shingles were damaged on some roofs due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. Several small tree limbs were downed as well.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$2,000	Power lines were blown down due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$2,000	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$1,500	Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$1,000	Tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$1,000	An uprooted tree blocked traffic between Greyhound Pass and 146th Street on Spring Mill Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$1,000	A tree, about one foot in diameter, was reported down in this location due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$1,000	A tree was reported down at 136th Street and Keystone Avenue due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
November 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$1,000	Power lines were downed throughout town.
July 2017	Flood	Carmel	$500	One to two feet of water was on the road at 126th Street due to heavy rainfall.
November 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	$500	Large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2013	Hail	Carmel	$500	Some holes were ripped in window screens due to the hail.
March 2021	Hail	Carmel	-	Two separate reports of nickel size hail in downtown Carmel.
March 2021	Hail	Carmel	-	Relayed via Emergency Management.
March 2020	Hail	Carmel	-	This report was relayed via the SKYWARN network.
March 2020	Hail	Carmel	-	Report was relayed via mPing.
March 2020	Hail	Carmel	-	Report relayed via mPing.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	-	A wind gust, estimated at 60 mph, was observed in northwest Carmel.
February 2009	Heavy Rain	Carmel	-	A retired National Weather Service Meteorologist reported 1.77 inches of rainfall since 0640 EST and a storm total of 2.75 inches. Begin time of event is roughly estimated.
April 2006	Hail	Carmel	-	No property damage estimates were available.
April 2006	Hail	Carmel	-	No property damage estimates were available.
August 2005	Lightning	Carmel	-	Lightning struck a home, causing a fire. The home had been the victim of another lightning-induced fire just three weeks before.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	-	4" diameter trees down
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Carmel	-	Numerous trees were blown down in the Carmel area. Report from law enforcement and media.
May 2025	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed
March 2024	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed
March 2020	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed
April 2020	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed
April 2018	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed
March 2017	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Carmel	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hamilton 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
Newark Village	0.8 miles	19
Echo Crest	2.0 miles	17
Home Place	2.7 miles	17
Orchard Park	2.9 miles	17
Holaday Hills and Dales	2.9 miles	19
Northern Beach	3.0 miles	19
College Meadows	3.2 miles	17
Northwood Hills	3.2 miles	19

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 Carmel	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q537853	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 432143. 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.