BlockDublin, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47335. It stands on Springs Run. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge City quadrangle. 679 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,050 feet above sea level.
On record in Dublin
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 2 records
Witt-Champe-Myers Houselisted 1995- Dublin Friends Meeting Houselisted 2018
Population over time
2 figuresDublin fell from 790 to 679 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 | 790 | |
| 2020 | 679 | -111 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Cambridge City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
10,460 words on this townshipHistory of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Jackson township was formed in Februar}', 1817, by the first board of county commissioners under the first state constitution. It then probably contained about one-sixth of the area of the county, or upward of 60 square miles. By the several alterations of its bounds, in the formation of new townships and of adjoining counties, it has been reduced to about 28J square miles, and to a shape not easily described. It is 6 miles wide on its west line, and 3 miles of its east end is but 1| miles wide - its entire length 8 miles. The National road and the Indiana Central Railroad run on nearly parallel lines, about GO rods apart, east and west, nearly through the whole length of the township.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.
Tlie earliest settlement in the township appears to have been made in the eastern part. In 1809, or soon after, John Shortridge, from Ky., settled near and south of East Germautown. lie was the father of John Shortridge who w^as shot by an Indian, as elsewhere related. Wm. G. Reynolds, from Ohio, with his brother-in-law, Isaiah Drury, came in 1811. Reynolds served in the Indian war under Col. Taylor, afterward general and president of the United States. Reynolds and Drury moved in 1855 to Illinois, and died there. George Shortridge, a son of John, Sen., settled where Joseph Vinton lives, near the depot. He afterward laid out the town, mostly on his own land, and called it Georgetown. The name not being general!}^ acceptable to the inhabitants, it was changed to Germantown.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.
The town was laid out by George Shortridge, proprietor; John Beard, surveyor. It was named Georgetown, and the plat was recorded Aug. 1, 1827. The name was afterward changed to Germantown, and recorded under that name Sept.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.
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 Jackson Township - it names this place 28 more 28 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dublin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dublin in 9 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 | Dublin | $5,000 | A few trees and power lines were downed. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dublin | $5,000 | A tree was knocked down onto a house. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dublin | $3,000 | Two 2 1/2 foot diameter pine trees were knocked down. |
| October 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dublin | $1,000 | One tree was reported down south of Dublin due to thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Dublin | $1,000 | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Dublin | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Dublin | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Dublin | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Dublin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Auburn | 1.0 miles | 8 | |
| Cambridge City | 2.0 miles | 8 | |
| Milton | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| East Germantown | 3.8 miles | 8 | |
| Pennville | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Jacksonburg | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Hiser | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Hagerstown | 7.3 miles | 8 |
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 Dublin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2402413 | 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 452038. 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.