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Dillsboro, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47018. It lies near Station Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dillsboro quadrangle. 1,360 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Dillsboro within Dearborn County

On record in Dillsboro

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Dillsboro grew from 1,327 to 1,360 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,327
20201,360+33 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched 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.

In the county-history sources

3,278 words on this township

History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Clay Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Clay township lies mostly on a ridge, between the deep valleys of South Hogan, Laughery and Hayes branch. In the center of the township it is high above the valleys. Dillsboro, which lies nearly in the center of the township, is seven hundred and eighty-five feet above the sea level and commands a fine view of the country about.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

Dillsboro is a very pretty village with neat front yards and cozy, home¬ like cottages. Its population in 1910 is given at four hundred and twenty-five, which is probably less than it is at this time. The town has recently taken on a greater degree of prosperity on account of the good pikes leading to it and the growth of the sanitarium which has been established here. Some years ago the citizens of the town, desiring to find if there was natural gas in the ground beneath their place, organized a company and sunk wells, but instead of finding gas they unexpectedly discovered water with medicinal virtues which they were quick to take advantage of and give the public the benefit. They have organized a company, erected a building that they expected would ac¬ commodate the public for the present but have found it all too small and larger buildings will be necessary at once.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

Besides the sanitarium the town has a number of stores that transact business with a large scope of country to the west and south. It is claimed for the town that the Dillsboro station does in the way of country produce the second best business of any on the line of the Baltimore & Ohio railway between Cincinnati and St. Louis. The town has concrete pavements on all its streets, electric lights and graded high school with a two-years course. The postoffice has three rural routes going out from it to the country around about The town permits no saloons and its citizens are of a high order of intelligence.

Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.

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 3 more 3 times.

Fires near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Dillsboro between 2004 and 2005, burning about 9 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
Recreation and ceremony3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
10 April 2004Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 March 2005Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 February 2004Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dearborn County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dillsboro in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Tornado (EF0)Dillsboro$40,000The tornado touched down in the 8800 block of Davies Road. The tornado continued to travel southeast, destroying barns and damaging roofs and trees for about 1 mile. ||Based on the degree of damage, the tornado produced winds of around 75 mph.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDillsboro$3,000Two trees were downed.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindDillsboro$3,000A severe thunderstorm produced winds that knocked down several trees.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindDillsboro$3,000no account filed
October 2016Thunderstorm WindDillsboro$2,000A few trees were reported knocked down.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindDillsboro$1,000A tree was knocked down.
July 2007HailDillsboro$1,000no account filed
June 2016Flash FloodDillsboro-Elder Lane was impassable due to high water.
April 2014FloodDillsboro-Three roads were closed due to standing water caused by heavy rainfall. These roads included State Route 262 in Dillsboro, Huesman Road, and Laughery Creek Road.
May 2002Flash FloodDillsboro-High water covered Spangler Road.
March 1995HailDillsboro-An isolated severe thunderstorm quickly developed over Dearborn County during the very early morning hours of the 23rd. The storm produced dime size hail in Dillsboro.
October 2016HailDillsboro-no account filed
April 2003Thunderstorm WindDillsboro-no account filed
April 1998HailDillsboro-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindDillsboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dearborn County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Dillsboro Station1.4 miles10
Chesterville3.5 miles10
Farmers Retreat3.7 miles8
Cold Springs3.8 miles10
Mount Sinai5.4 miles19
Sparta6.1 miles10
Wilmington6.7 miles19
Moores Hill6.8 miles10

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 DillsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1026784The 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 433558. 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.