Cicero, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46034. The Survey maps it on the Noblesville quadrangle. 5,301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Cicero within Hamilton County

Population over time

2 figures

Cicero grew from 4,812 to 5,301 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	4,812
2020	5,301	+489 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Noblesville quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Noblesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Noblesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Noblesville quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Noblesville quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

6,516 words on this township

History of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

E.\RI,V Iin.Mis, In the early days of eiiiigralion, the liio.st direct lino between two stations was the object sought by the emigrant, and Strawtown was, perhaps, tho most noted point on the line usually traveled by emigrant trains. Here they could find the provisions to replenish their supply and last until ihcy could reach the scltlcmcnls on Wild Cat Prairie, in Tippecanoe County. The most direct route between Strawtown and the latter point w,is indicated by an Indian "truce," which in time became a well-defined road, from tlie frci[uency with which it was traveled, but its course was rambling and irregular, as the driver would often bo compelled to make a circuit in order to ovoid a iniidhole. About the year 1830, this road was surveyed by order of tho State, and was oderward known as the Newcastle and La Fayette Slate road. About the

Passage source: History of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880.

Townships HI and 211 norlli, and running west to Thornlown. It was known as Ihc Cicero and Thornlown Slate road. The Indianapolis and Peru Stale road was surveyed about a year later. It traverses the eastern portion of the township from north lo south. In the course of lime, these all became good roads, or at least good (Plough to admit of travel without danger to the occupants of vehicles who traversed the routes. They placed Cicero in communication with the outside world, and played no inconsideruble port in cslablishing the early prosperity of tho town, for a location on tho great public highways of that period was scarcely less beneficial lo a town llian a location on one of tho railroads of lo-day.

Between the several neighborlionds of the town-hip, roads were cut out through the woods to serve in facilitating communieation between the neighbors. Subscipicnt surveys changed the course of some of theso roads ; some, however, remain nearly oa at first located.

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 - it names this place 12 more 12 times.

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 Cicero: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Riverwood Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Southard Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this place

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cicero in 26 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$13,000	Several lagre trees were reportedly snapped off five feet above the ground due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Several light poles were also reportedly snapped off in the same location.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines were downed along Carrigan Road near Morse Reservoir due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$10,000	Multiple large trees were downed in northeastern Hamilton County, from Cicero to Atlanta and eastward, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$7,000	Trees and a telephone pole were downed in Cicero due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$6,000	Numerous trees were reported down in an east-west line near 236th Street in Cicero. The tree damage was due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$5,000	Trees and limbs were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$3,000	Trees were reported to be downed across a road. This report was relayed from Noblesville Fire Department.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$2,000	Large tree downed by thunderstorm wind gusts at Bear Slide Golf Club.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$2,000	Two trees were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$2,000	Medium sized tree branches were reported down in a yard and on a storage shed just west of Cicero, near the intersection of Morse Landing Drive and Tollgate Road. Minor damage to the shed was reported. Also, a tree was reported downed on East 231st Street near Bear Slide Golf Club.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	$1,000	A tree was downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2015	Flood	Cicero	$1,000	Ponding and water was running over county roadways due to heavy rainfall. Flooding was up to a foot and a half deep at the intersections of Toll Gate Road and 231st Street and Morse Landing Drive.
June 2023	Hail	Cicero	-	Thunderstorm hail continued across northern Hamilton County, including 1.00 hail in Cicero.
July 2017	Hail	Cicero	-	There was sparse coverage of pea-sized hail with a few larger ones, near penny size, mixed in for 4 minutes at Toll Gate Road and 231st Street.
July 2017	Hail	Cicero	-	Rainfall of 0.95 inches of rain fell in 25 minutes.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	-	A thunderstorm wind gust measured at 62 mph was observed in this location.
March 2007	Flood	Cicero	-	Bear Slide Creek flooded, closing Toll Gate Road near 236th Street.
March 2016	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
March 2016	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Cicero	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cicero	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Cicero	-	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
Clare	2.8 miles	15
Riverwood	2.9 miles	15
Arcadia	3.6 miles	11
Strawtown	3.7 miles	15
Meadows Knoll	4.0 miles	15
Meadows Glen	4.1 miles	15
Deming	4.6 miles	15
Walnut Grove	4.7 miles	12

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 Cicero	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q38648	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 432518. 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.