BlockCrane, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47522. The Survey maps it on the Scotland quadrangle. 166 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 610 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresCrane fell from 339 to 166 between 1970 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 339 | |
| 2010 | 184 | |
| 2020 | 166 | -18 (-10%) |
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.
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Scotland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Scotland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Crane: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this place
10 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crane in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Crane | $100,000 | Continuation of EF1 supercell tornado from northeastern Daviess County. The tornado continued onto far northwestern portions of Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center's grounds, snapping hardwood trees in a non-continuous path, before lifting about a mile west of Lake Greenwood's southwest corner. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane | $12,000 | Trees were downed on multiple roads in Martin County due to thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Crane | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees along Greenwood Lake. |
| June 2013 | Flash Flood | Crane | $1,000 | Several roads and culverts were washed out across north and east parts of the Crane Naval Reserve due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. |
| June 2019 | Hail | Crane | - | This report was sent via social media. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Crane | - | Some rotation was also noted in the clouds. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Crane | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Crane | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burns City | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Bramble | 7.7 miles | 13 | |
| Indian Springs | 9.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cale | 10.4 miles | 13 | |
| Dover Hill | 12.7 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Olive | 12.8 miles | 22 | |
| Scenic Hill | 14.7 miles | 13 | |
| Loogootee | 14.8 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 Crane | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2786182 | 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 433088. 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.