Flora, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46929. The Survey maps it on the Flora quadrangle. 2,094 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 702 feet above sea level.
On record in Flora
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Wagoner-Ayres Houselisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresFlora grew from 2,036 to 2,094 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 | 2,036 | |
| 2020 | 2,094 | +58 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Flora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
127 words on this townshipHistory of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Flora, an incorporated town, has a population of one thousand six hundred, and is located on the Vandalia railroad, in this township. Bringhurst is a town of about six hundred inhabitants, situate in this township and on the Vandalia railroad. Flora and Bringhurst each have fine high school buildings. These two rival towns are only one mile apart.
Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Monroe Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Flora: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll County Highway Dept. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Wallace Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
24 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flora in 24 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 12 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 lightning, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Flood | Flora | $125,000 | Between Flora and Delphi, Indiana several roads and bridges were badly damaged by flood water. Damage cost is grossly estimated. |
| May 2009 | Lightning | Flora | $100,000 | Abundant lightning strikes associated with a squall line apparently started a house fire at approximately 2223 EST in Flora, Indiana. Three occupants apparently were unable to escape and perished in the fire. |
| June 2001 | Lightning | Flora | $70,000 | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $17,000 | Numerous reports of a downed transformer, downed power lines, and downed trees around the Flora area due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A roof was also blown off a chicken coop. Power was out in Flora at the time of observation. |
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a building and downed trees and utility lines. Estimated damage cost is very rough. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $15,000 | A pole barn was destroyed. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines down by thunderstorm wind gusts across Carroll County. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $5,000 | Trees were reported down in the county due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $500 | Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees. |
| October 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | $500 | no account filed |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. This event was relayed via broadcast media. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location, just north of Flora. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | Wind gust was measured by a trained spotter. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | Trees were downed. |
| August 2004 | Flash Flood | Flora | - | The Carroll County Sheriff reported very high water on at least two roads in Flora. |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Flora | - | Police vehicle was almost blown off the road by an estimated 60 mph wind. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Flora | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Flora | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bringhurst | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Camden | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Adams Mill | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Cutler | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Harley Siding | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Harley | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Lexington | 6.4 miles | 10 | |
| Radnor | 6.4 miles | 9 |
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 Flora | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q942879 | 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 434609. 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.




