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Dunlap, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Concord Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46517. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elkhart quadrangle. 6,442 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Dunlap within Elkhart County

Population over time

2 figures

Dunlap grew from 6,235 to 6,442 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
20106,235
20206,442+207 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dunlap: 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hunterlake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Indiana Highway Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pit No. 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Riegsecker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Elkhart County

Storms near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunlap in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1998Tornado (F1)Dunlap$300,000THIS TORNADO LIKELY FORMED ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THE BOW ECHO WHICH PASSED THROUGH BERRIEN AND ST. JOSEPH COUNTIES EARLIER. IT TOUCHED DOWN ON TOP OF THE FORD DEALERSHIP ALONG HIGHWAY 33 TEARING OFF A LARGE PART OF THE ROOF AND ONE WALL. NEXT IT THREW A FORD AEROSTAR VAN INTO A POWER POLE AND PICKED UP AN RV TOSSING IT OVER 50 YARDS AWAY ACROSS THE HIGHWAY INTO A DITCH. NEXT IT CROSSED A STREET AND HIT A MANUFACTURED HOME DEALERSHIP SHIFTING SEVERAL HOMES OFF THEIR FOUNDATIONS, TEARING A LARGE PART OF THE OFFICE ROOF OFF AND FLIPPING A MOVING VAN OVER. IT THEN PROCEEDED DOWN ALONG HIGHWAY 33 FOR APPROXIMATELY ANOTHER 200 YARDS TEARING OFF PARTS OF ROOFS AND AIR CONDITIONING UNITS BEFORE LIFTING.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindDunlap$50,000SEVERAL HOME ROOFS DAMAGED.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindDunlap$5,000Various large branches down and one tree uprooted on the southeast side of Elkhart.
July 2023HailDunlap$1,000no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindDunlap$500A metal light pole was broke off at the base in the parking lot of a Chevy dealership along US 33.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindDunlap-The public reported eight to ten inch tree limbs down on CR 16.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindDunlap-Several four to five inch diameters trees downed, in good health.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDunlap-The public reported a one to two foot diameter tree, with some signs of rot, was blown down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindDunlap-An isolated area of damage to multiple trees was reported in the area of the 24000 block of County Road 20/Mishawaka Road. Some of the tree tops were snapped with one tree uprooted.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindDunlap-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Dunlap.
May 2001HailDunlap-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindDunlap-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elkhart 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
De Camp Gardens1.7 miles13
Midway2.1 miles12
Garden Village4.0 miles13
East Lake Estates4.2 miles13
Elkhart4.2 miles13
Greenleaf Manor4.3 miles13
Jamestown5.4 miles13
Goshen6.0 miles12

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 DunlapAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2521535The 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 433789. 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.