BlockDupont, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47231. The Survey maps it on the Vernon quadrangle. 343 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresDupont grew from 339 to 343 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 | 339 | |
| 2020 | 343 | +4 (+1%) |
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
- 1959 USGS Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Dupont in 2016, burning about 1 acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 March 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | I ROAD SOUTH |
Storms near this place
5 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dupont in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1999 | Tornado (F2) | Dupont | $100,000 | no account filed |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dupont | - | A law enforcement official reported trees and power lines down across the area due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dupont | - | Jefferson County emergency management reported a tree down across State Highway 7 near Dupont. Numerous trees were downed across the northern and eastern portions of the county as well. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dupont | - | Power lines were blown down. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dupont | - | A large tree was reported down on State Route 7 just north of Dupont. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Five Points | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Middlefork | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Lancaster | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Calloway Station (historical) | 4.4 miles | 10 | |
| Midway | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Wirt | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Wirt Station | 6.7 miles | 10 | |
| Volga | 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 Dupont | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2445758 | 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 433805. 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.