Coalmont, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lewis Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47845. The Survey maps it on the Jasonville quadrangle. 354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 630 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCoalmont fell from 402 to 354 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 | 402 | |
| 2020 | 354 | -48 (-12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1940 USGS Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Jasonville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
20 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Coalmont between 2002 and 2008, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 July 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 April 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 5 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 April 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 24 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 9 March 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coalmont in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coalmont | $75,000 | Several trees uprooted, a couple snapped, some power lines down from trees, and a little structural damage mainly from trees falling on homes caused by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coalmont | $8,000 | Dispatch reported several trees down in Coalmont due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coalmont | $7,000 | Trees were reported down in the southern portion of Shakamak State Park. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coalmont | $3,000 | A tree was reported down on a garage at 1973 E State Route 48. Power lines were also reported down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coalmont | $250 | An 18-inch tree limb was reported down near Shakamak State Park due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Coalmont | - | No property damage was reported. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coalmont | - | Trees were downed in Coalmont. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Coalmont | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan Corner | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Bogle Corner | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Howesville | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| New Brunswick | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Brunswick | 5.9 miles | 18 | |
| Old Hill | 7.6 miles | 17 | |
| Middlebury | 7.7 miles | 16 | |
| Clay City | 8.5 miles | 16 |
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 Coalmont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5138017 | 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 432712. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.






