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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.

Elnora within Daviess County

Population over time

2 figures

Elnora 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.

YearPeople Change
2010640
2020631-9 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

2,616 words on this township

History 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mize DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

22 since 1997

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Flash FloodElnora$200,000Breaches 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 2025Flash FloodElnora$10,000Rainfall, 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 2012Thunderstorm WindElnora$5,000Trees were reported down across Highway 57 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Marble sized hail was also observed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindElnora$4,000Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindElnora$1,000Tree blown down by thunderstorm wind gust onto Indiana Route 57 at East County Road 1450 North.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindElnora$1,000Numerous live tree limbs snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts around the town of Elnora.
June 2015FloodElnora$1,000Significant flooding had limited access to a property due to heavy rainfall.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindElnora$1,000A tree was blown down onto Highway 57 and County Road 350 East, north of Plainville, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindElnora$1,000Power lines were downed.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindElnora$500no account filed
May 2022HailElnora-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 2007Thunderstorm WindElnora-Several trees were reported down in Elnora due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
March 2026HailElnora-no account filed
April 2026HailElnora-no account filed
March 2024HailElnora-no account filed
November 2017HailElnora-no account filed
March 2009Funnel CloudElnora-no account filed
September 2006HailElnora-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindElnora-no account filed
April 2001HailElnora-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindElnora-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindElnora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Odon5.6 miles13
Plainville6.1 miles14
Epsom6.5 miles14
Raglesville8.4 miles13
Cornettsville8.5 miles14
Farlen8.9 miles13
Capehart10.8 miles15
Lettsville12.0 miles15

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 ElnoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2131659The 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.