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Edgewood, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Anderson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46011. The Survey maps it on the Anderson South quadrangle. 2,053 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Edgewood within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

Edgewood grew from 1,913 to 2,053 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
20101,913
20202,053+140 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Anderson township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874 - Anderson Township

W. A. Hunt The Big Lick

The source of Lick Creek, proper, is what is generally called the Big Lick. Many an incident occurred here which gave much merriment and laughter among the old settlers, then living in this part of the county. It was a great place of resort for the wild game of the woods at that time, especially deer. (My informant states he saw seven one morning before breakfast, a pretty fair sight on an empty stomach indeed,) which would come and sup of the water that oozed from the sides of the low banks, water which seemed everlasting , and many an one was shot down by sporting men who then lived in this vicinity.

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In the county-history sources

32,903 words on this township

History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874; Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana, published 1897; History of Madison County Indiana (Volume 1), published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Anderson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Anderson Township - 32,903 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Edgewood in 2004, burning under an 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/undetermined1

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
16 April 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edgewood: 1 past producer, 1 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
Anderson Pit-Abc Sand & Gravel Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Anderson Pit-Irving Materials, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

11 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewood in 11 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash 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 2025Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$250,000A large amount of damage to both home and businesses was caused by thunderstorm wind gusts. Many nearby roads impassable due to the amount of storm debris.
May 2015Flash FloodEdgewood$30,000The Anderson Fire Department worked two water rescues in the area of 8th Street and Raible Avenue due to flash flooding caused by heavy thunderstorm rainfall.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$5,000Several trees and branches downed by thunderstorm wind gusts in town. Two streets blocked.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$3,000Power poles were downed in Edgewood due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report was received via twitter.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$1,000A tree was reported down on State Road 32, near Windsor Way, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-A double-wide trailer had the awning blown off and up into a nearby tree. Nearby, an 80 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated with nearby tree damage.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-A thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 60 mph occurred on the west side of Anderson.
March 2017HailEdgewood-no account filed
March 2017HailEdgewood-no account filed
March 2017HailEdgewood-no account filed
March 2017HailEdgewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
South Edgewood0.4 miles14
River Forest0.6 miles14
Elmhurst0.8 miles14
Western Village1.0 miles14
Edgewood Village1.0 miles13
Brentwood1.1 miles14
Grandview1.7 miles14
Bloomer2.2 miles13

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 EdgewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2473132The 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 434014. 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.

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.