BlockBefore

Chandler, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ohio Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47610. The Survey maps it on the Boonville quadrangle. 3,693 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 413 feet above sea level.

Chandler within Warrick County

Population over time

2 figures

Chandler grew from 2,887 to 3,693 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
20102,887
20203,693+806 (+28%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

62 words on this township

Warrick and Its Prominent People : a History of Warrick County, Indiana, from the Time of Its Organization and Settlement, with Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent People of the Past and Present, published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Ohio Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Ohio Township - 62 words.

Storms near this place

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chandler in 28 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 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
May 1996Flash FloodChandler$200,000no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindChandler$150,000Numerous trees and power lines were down. Some cars, homes, and outbuildings were damaged either directly by wind or by trees falling on them. At least one vehicle was heavily damaged due to falling trees. Roofs were partially blown off, and attached car ports were blown off. A carport was blown 40 feet up into a tree. A barn was destroyed. The damage area was about 5.5 miles long and .6 mile wide, concentrated mainly on the southern end of Chandler. A National Weather Service site survey determined that macroburst winds of around 110 MPH caused the damage.
April 2024Tornado (EF1)Chandler$75,000An EF-1 tornado touched down west of IN-261, and then impacted a residential area south of Hunter Rd. Three homes suffered substantial damage to their roofs. The tornado continued east-southeast to S. Center Rd before lifting just east of there. Hundreds of trees were either snapped or uprooted in the path. This survey was completed in partnership with Vanderburgh County and Warrick County Emergency Management Agencies. Estimated peak winds were 95 mph.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindChandler$15,000Tree damage occurred in the Castle Garden and Chandler area. Corn was blown over and a few metal pieces were thrown from structures.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindChandler$10,000A one-foot diameter persimmon tree fell onto a detached garage on the south side of Chandler.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindChandler$10,000Several trees were down in both Chandler and Boonville.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindChandler$5,000Tree limbs were down on power lines in Chandler and near Newburgh.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindChandler$5,000Tree limbs were blown down. Power was out at a few homes.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindChandler$5,000Several small trees were blown down on Highway 62.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindChandler$5,000Trees were down.
November 1998Thunderstorm WindChandler$5,000A wind gust to 70 MPH downed power poles and trees.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindChandler$5,000A few trees were down across a road.
October 2013Thunderstorm WindChandler$2,000Tree limbs were blown down in Chandler. A tree was down across Highway 61 between Lynnville and Boonville.
July 2013Heavy RainChandler-Evening thunderstorms with torrential rain produced 4.68 inches of rainfall. One inch of rain fell in 15 minutes. Water was over several secondary roadways.
January 2013FloodChandler-The 24-hour rainfall total was 3.41 inches. Most of this rain fell on the evening of the 12th. Some low-lying side roads were flooded northwest of Chandler, mainly due to flooding of Pigeon Creek.
September 2009Flash FloodChandler-One inch of rain was measured in 15 minutes at Chandler. A CoCoRahs (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow) Network observer reported a 24-hour total of 2.45 inches several miles west of Chandler. Flooding was reported in both Newburgh and Chandler. The ground was already very moist from between 1 and 2 inches of rain that fell the previous day.
January 2008Funnel CloudChandler-The funnel cloud was reported along Highway 66 and Edwards St.
May 2005Heavy RainChandler-Two inches of water was over Highway 62 in a few places. Some minor urban flooding was reported in Boonville.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindChandler-Several trees were down between Chandler and Paradise.
August 1997FloodChandler-Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused some roads across the county to flood. No reports of road closures or stranded motorists were received.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindChandler-no account filed
July 2012HailChandler-no account filed
October 2010HailChandler-no account filed
April 2006HailChandler-no account filed
July 2004HailChandler-no account filed
May 2003HailChandler-no account filed
February 1996HailChandler-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodChandler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warrick 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
Center1.4 miles19
Castle Garden1.9 miles20
Baugh City2.4 miles20
Paradise3.2 miles16
Stevenson3.9 miles20
Millersburg4.2 miles20
Fisherville4.6 miles20
Boonville5.0 miles19

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 ChandlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3292351The 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 432395. 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.