BlockCoatesville, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46121. The Survey maps it on the Coatesville quadrangle. 555 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresCoatesville grew from 523 to 555 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 | 523 | |
| 2020 | 555 | +32 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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 Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Coatesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Coatesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
6,757 words on this townshipHistory of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Clay Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The handsome brick school-house was completed in 1868, at a cost of $8,000. There are four rooms, three of which are occupied. The teachers for the present year are Joseph J. Doane, Mrs. Naomi RatlifFe and Miss Anna Hawkins. There are 150 pupils on the rolls.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885.
Coatesville Lodge , No. 357, 1. O . O . F , was organized Nov. 27, 1870, with the following first members: Joel T. Tinder, Wallace Snowden, William Lakin, William Newkirk and Alva W: San¬ ders. The present officers are: O. S. Newton, N. G.; J. N. Bowen, V. G.; J. G. Sharp, Secretary; W. M. Lakin, Treasurer, David Fisher, Warden.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885.
James N . Bourne is one of the wide-awake, enterprising busi¬ ness men of Coatesville, where he has lived, since 1876. For a time after coming here he was engaged in the livery business, but since December, 1877, has been engaged in the drug business, in which he has built up a large trade. His father, William S. Bourne, was a native of Garrard County, Ky., and one of the pio¬ neers of Putnam County, Ind., where he died, in Jefferson Town¬ ship, in September, 1872, and where his wife still lives. They had a family of eight children. James N. is the only one living in Hendricks County. He was born in Jefferson Township, Putnam Co., Ind., in 1847. He remained with his parents till after the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion, when he enlisted, in March, 1864, in Company A, Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry. He participated in some of the most important battles of the last years of the war, including the Atlanta campaign and Sherman's march to the sea; thence to Washington, where he was in line at the grand review of the army. He married Sarilda J. Hill, a native of Putnam County, Ind., daughter of Andrew J. Hill. They have had five children - Everett, Maggie, Bertha, James A., and Ralfo. Bertha is deceased.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, published 1885.
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 Clay Township - it names this place 8 more 8 times.
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Coatesville in 2010, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 October 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | BLANTON |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coatesville in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coatesville | $10,000 | A roof was torn off a barn due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coatesville | $1,000 | A healthy tree was uprooted and downed over Main Street, west of Coatesville, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coatesville | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2016 | Hail | Coatesville | - | no account filed |
| May 2014 | Hail | Coatesville | - | no account filed |
| September 2012 | Hail | Coatesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coatesville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reno | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Amo | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Springtown | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Stilesville | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Hadley | 4.7 miles | 12 | |
| Pecksburg | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| New Winchester | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Summit | 7.1 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 Coatesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2958786 | 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 432714. 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.