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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.

Churubusco within Whitley County

Population over time

2 figures

Churubusco 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,796
20201,870+74 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Storms near this place

29 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Thunderstorm WindChurubusco$75,000TREE FELL INTO A HOUSE CAUSING MAJOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. ANOTHER TREE FELL ON TOP OF A CAR FLATTENING IT.
July 2005Heavy RainChurubusco$35,000Thunderstorms 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 2025Thunderstorm WindChurubusco$25,000Reports of trees and large branches down in Churubusco.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindChurubusco$20,000Pieces of metal roof were blown off a commercial building. Some roof pieces were lofted into nearby powerlines.
July 2022Flash FloodChurubusco$20,000Water up to waist-deep was reported in the Sunny Slope Housing Addition on Windsor Drive.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindChurubusco$5,000A healthy 15 inch diameter tree was broken at its base.
July 2022FloodChurubusco$5,000In Churubusco, the public reported that there was six to twelve inches of water over the roadway.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindChurubusco$2,500Emergency management officials reported a tree down onto a mobile home in Shady Grove trailer park. Damage is estimated at $2,500.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-EM reports multiple barns blown down.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-EM reports 2 large trees down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-Emergency management officials reported power poles were blown down.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-A trained spotter reported a tree was blown down onto a home.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-A trained spotter reported power lines down on US 33.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-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 2010Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-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 2008Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-Trees were reported blown down in the area.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-Large limbs were blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-Law enforcement reported numerous trees down in Churubusco.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindChurubusco-Siding torn off of a garage. Trees down.
June 2013HailChurubusco-no account filed
May 2007HailChurubusco-no account filed
May 2001HailChurubusco-no account filed
June 2001HailChurubusco-no account filed
June 2001HailChurubusco-no account filed
August 2000HailChurubusco-no account filed
September 1999HailChurubusco-no account filed
April 1999HailChurubusco-no account filed
June 1998HailChurubusco-no account filed
April 1996HailChurubusco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Collins4.2 miles11
Tri-Lakes6.6 miles11
Coesse Corners7.4 miles11
Coesse8.2 miles11
Cresco9.1 miles11
Five Points9.5 miles11
Dunfee10.0 miles10
Columbia City10.3 miles11

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 ChurubuscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2724215The 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.