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Cloverdale, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cloverdale Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46120. It lies near Sunset Hill (historical). The Survey maps it on the Cloverdale quadrangle. 2,060 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Cloverdale within Putnam County

On record in Cloverdale

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Cloverdale fell from 2,172 to 2,060 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
20102,172
20202,060-112 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

3,608 words on this township

Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Cloverdale Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The town of Cloverdale is situated on the L., N. A. & C. Uailroad, twelve miles south of Greencastle, and is the largest town in the county, exclusive of the county seat, having a population of 500. It was laid out by Andrew T. McCoy and Moses Nelson, in 183;J, and stands on section 1, township 12, range 4, and section 6, township 12, range 3.

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887.

Through the instrumentality of Dr. Dyer a seminary was erected in Cloverdale, in 1850, which was carried on for about three years. Professor William Bray was the first principal, and was followed by N. C. Woodward. The institution was chartered and was organized under promising circumstance.. Dr. Dyer, Andrew T. McCoy and John Sandy were the largest stockholders. The school finally failed, because a majority of the stockholders refused to be taxed for its support.

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887.

The schools of the township are good, and their wants are well attended to by the efficiei.t trustee, William Vestal. Cloverdale Seminary and Graded School is under the general management of a board of town trustees. The special object of the seminary is to train teachers for the common school. The course of study and work doue are thorough, and the facilities for gaining an education are good.

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887.

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 Cloverdale Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

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

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rock Hill QuarryLimestone, DimensionProducer
Cloverdale Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Putman County Stone PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

40 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverdale in 40 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 21 hail, 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
December 2015Thunderstorm WindCloverdale1 hurt, $10,000A semi trailer was blown off US Highway 231 at Interstate 70 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. One injury was reported.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$20,000no account filed
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$15,000Three or four tree were blown down on Down Boy Way in Cloverdale. One of the trees is dead and fell into a mobile home, coming to rest halfway to the floor.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$15,000A box trailer was reported to be overturned due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Trees and tree limbs were down too, along with some power outages.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$10,000no account filed
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$5,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in Putnam County.
May 2003Tornado (F0)Cloverdale$5,000no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$5,000no account filed
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$4,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed multiple trees.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$3,000Trees were blown down at this loaction due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
October 2014Tornado (EF0)Cloverdale$2,000A damage survey revealed a brief EF0 tornado causing damage to a couple trees approximately 2 miles southeast of Cloverdale. The tornado was sighted by the Emergency Manager, who observed swirling corn stalks in the air.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$2,000Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCloverdale$800Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree onto State Route 42.
June 2014Flash FloodCloverdale$500Two to four inches of water was running over Indiana 42 near East County Road 1200 South. Water was still rising.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-Trained Spotter measured a 63 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-A measured 63 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
August 2009HailCloverdale-A thunderstorm produced golf ball sized hail on the north side of Cloverdale. Power flashes were also observed and power was out in the town.
July 2008Flash FloodCloverdale-Flooding from heavy thunderstorm rains was reported on US Highway 231.
June 2007HailCloverdale-Nickel hail was reported by law enforcement at the highway 231 interchange on interstate 70.
June 2001HailCloverdale-1 inch hail reported near Interstate 70.
June 2021HailCloverdale-no account filed
June 2021HailCloverdale-no account filed
March 2016HailCloverdale-no account filed
March 2012HailCloverdale-no account filed
April 2007HailCloverdale-no account filed
March 2006HailCloverdale-no account filed
March 2006HailCloverdale-no account filed
June 2006HailCloverdale-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCloverdale-no account filed
May 2004HailCloverdale-no account filed
May 2003Flash FloodCloverdale-no account filed
May 2003HailCloverdale-no account filed
April 2003HailCloverdale-no account filed
August 2001HailCloverdale-no account filed
April 1998HailCloverdale-no account filed
April 1998HailCloverdale-no account filed
April 1998HailCloverdale-no account filed
May 1996HailCloverdale-no account filed
April 1996HailCloverdale-no account filed
April 1996HailCloverdale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Cradick Corner2.1 miles14
Jenkinsville4.5 miles16
Westland5.5 miles14
Putnamville5.6 miles14
Belle Union6.2 miles13
Mount Meridian6.3 miles14
Manhattan7.6 miles16
Cagle Mill8.0 miles15

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 CloverdaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1966807The 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 432688. 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.