Elnora, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Elmore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47529. It stands on Grindstone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle. 631 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresElnora fell from 640 to 631 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 | 640 | |
| 2020 | 631 | -9 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1943 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
2,616 words on this townshipHistory of Knox and Daviess County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. ; Together with an Extended History of the Colonial Days of Vincennes, and Its Progress Down to the Formation of the State Government, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Elmore Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Elmore Township - 2,616 words.
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 Elnora: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mize Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
22 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elnora in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Elnora | $200,000 | Breaches in sections of the levee just south of Elnora and heavy rain caused flash flooding in Daviess County. Extensive crop flooding occurred along with flooding that occurred to houses. |
| June 2025 | Flash Flood | Elnora | $10,000 | Rainfall, reported as great as 5.19 inches south of Plainville, with bias-corrected radar estimates approaching 7.00 inches between Plainville and Odon, produced flash flooding. Immediately west of the intersection of Indiana Route 58 and County Road 900 East in Odon, flowing water rose up to a car wash and over a gas station parking lot. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | $5,000 | Trees were reported down across Highway 57 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Marble sized hail was also observed. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | $4,000 | Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | $1,000 | Tree blown down by thunderstorm wind gust onto Indiana Route 57 at East County Road 1450 North. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | $1,000 | Numerous live tree limbs snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts around the town of Elnora. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Elnora | $1,000 | Significant flooding had limited access to a property due to heavy rainfall. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | $1,000 | A tree was blown down onto Highway 57 and County Road 350 East, north of Plainville, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| September 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | $1,000 | Power lines were downed. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2022 | Hail | Elnora | - | Thunderstorm produced large hail that led to the loss of 200 acres of corn and soybeans, with 1000 acres stripped to stubs. Fully headed wheat was also destroyed. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | - | Several trees were reported down in Elnora due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| March 2026 | Hail | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| April 2026 | Hail | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Hail | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| November 2017 | Hail | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Elnora | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odon | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Plainville | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Epsom | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| Raglesville | 8.4 miles | 13 | |
| Cornettsville | 8.5 miles | 14 | |
| Farlen | 8.9 miles | 13 | |
| Capehart | 10.8 miles | 15 | |
| Lettsville | 12.0 miles | 15 |
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 Elnora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2131659 | 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 434139. 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.






