BlockCollegeville, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Marion Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47978. The Survey maps it on the Rensselaer quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.
On record in Collegeville
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 within a mile 4 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Hugh and Leona Rank Houselisted 2016 · 0.3 miles away
Schwietermann Halllisted 2016 · 0.5 miles away
Charles Halleck Student Centerlisted 2016 · 0.7 miles away
St. Joseph Indian Normal Schoollisted 1973 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresCollegeville fell from 330 to 84 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 | 330 | |
| 2020 | 84 | -246 (-75%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Rensselaer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Collegeville: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Lead, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jasper Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Rensselaer Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sphalerite and Galena Occurrence | Lead, Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Galena, Sphalerite | |
| A. Metz, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Babcock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Collegeville in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collegeville | - | A large tree was blown down. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Collegeville | - | Multiple trees were snapped and patches of corn were flattened southeast of Collegeville. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Collegeville | - | Record flooding occurred along the Iroquois River. The river crested at 17.05 feet at Rensselaer on February 23rd, which was the highest crest on record. Flood stage at Rensselaer is 12 feet and major stage is 15 feet. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Collegeville | - | Quarter size hail was reported near 900 South and 380 West. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Collegeville | - | Hail to the size of half dollars was reported near Highway 231 and Route 16. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Collegeville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Marion | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Rensselaer | 1.7 miles | 10 | |
| North Marion | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Egypt | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | 4.6 miles | 8 | |
| Surrey | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| McCoysburg | 7.1 miles | 8 | |
| Rosebud | 8.3 miles | 10 |
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 Collegeville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2225217 | 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 432777. 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.