BlockCortland, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hamilton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47274. The Survey maps it on the Seymour quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.
On record in Cortland
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Beatty-Trimpe Farmlisted 2003 · 0.8 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Seymour quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cortland in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland | $500,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed 30 power poles and damaged house roofs. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland | $80,000 | Trees fell on two homes causing damage to the homes. The roof and doors were also blown off a large garage due to damaging thunderstorm winds. An RV was blown off of the blocks and the legs were stuck in the ground. Another garage nearby was flattened. At a farm, damage occurred to grain bins and one of the barns. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland | $25,000 | A barn collapsed onto a pickup truck due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A church reported playground equipment ripped from the ground and a porch tossed onto a roof. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland | $15,000 | A roof was blown off of a home in Cortland due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds damaged trees and blew barn doors in and off in Courtland. |
| May 2008 | Flash Flood | Cortland | $5,000 | Water was covering County Road 800 North between County Road 725 and County Road 100 East. Flash flooding was also occurring on State Road 258 between County Road 100 West and County Road 190 West due to heavy rain. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Cortland | $1,000 | Dispatch reported State Road 258 was closed due to water, from heavy thunderstorm rainfall, flowing over the road. |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland | $1,000 | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cortland | - | Several trees fell onto State Road 258 west of Cortland due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2023 | Hail | Cortland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hangman Crossing | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Sunset Parkway | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bobtown | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Rockford | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Seymour | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| New Elizabethtown | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Shields | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Peters Switch | 4.9 miles | 13 |
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 Cortland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5173338 | 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 432994. 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.
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.