Churubusco, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Smith Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46723. The Survey maps it on the Churubusco quadrangle. 1,870 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 899 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresChurubusco grew from 1,796 to 1,870 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 | 1,796 | |
| 2020 | 1,870 | +74 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Churubusco quadrangle1:24000
- 1965 USGS Churubusco quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
29 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Churubusco in 29 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 16 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | $75,000 | TREE FELL INTO A HOUSE CAUSING MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. ANOTHER TREE FELL ON TOP OF A CAR FLATTENING IT. |
| July 2005 | Heavy Rain | Churubusco | $35,000 | Thunderstorms continued to develop over extreme northeastern Whitley county between 6 pm and 9 pm EST. At 8 pm, local officials reported three inches of rain had fallen in the Churubusco area, with the rain falling so fast that part of a roof collapsed at the Sheets and Childs Funeral Home. Rainfall rates of 2 to 3 inches per hour were estimated by radar, with a final report in excess of 7 inches of rain falling over the area. No injuries were reported. A few streets and basements also experienced some minor flooding. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | $25,000 | Reports of trees and large branches down in Churubusco. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | $20,000 | Pieces of metal roof were blown off a commercial building. Some roof pieces were lofted into nearby powerlines. |
| July 2022 | Flash Flood | Churubusco | $20,000 | Water up to waist-deep was reported in the Sunny Slope Housing Addition on Windsor Drive. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | $5,000 | A healthy 15 inch diameter tree was broken at its base. |
| July 2022 | Flood | Churubusco | $5,000 | In Churubusco, the public reported that there was six to twelve inches of water over the roadway. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | $2,500 | Emergency management officials reported a tree down onto a mobile home in Shady Grove trailer park. Damage is estimated at $2,500. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | EM reports multiple barns blown down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | EM reports 2 large trees down. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | Emergency management officials reported power poles were blown down. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | A trained spotter reported a tree was blown down onto a home. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | A trained spotter reported power lines down on US 33. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | Emergency management officials reported a power line blown down at 230 Rail Street and a tree down across the road near the intersection of Main and Pleasant Street, around a tenth of a mile southeast of the power line down report. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | Law enforcement officials reported multiple trees down as well as some corn flattened on County Road 700 North, between County Roads 650 and 750 East. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | Trees were reported blown down in the area. |
| May 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | Large limbs were blown down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | Law enforcement reported numerous trees down in Churubusco. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Churubusco | - | Siding torn off of a garage. Trees down. |
| June 2013 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| September 1999 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Churubusco | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Churubusco | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collins | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Tri-Lakes | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Coesse Corners | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Coesse | 8.2 miles | 11 | |
| Cresco | 9.1 miles | 11 | |
| Five Points | 9.5 miles | 11 | |
| Dunfee | 10.0 miles | 10 | |
| Columbia City | 10.3 miles | 11 |
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 Churubusco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2724215 | 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 432516. 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.





