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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.

Flora within Carroll County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Flora 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,036
20202,094+58 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

127 words on this township

History 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 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carroll County Highway Dept.StoneProducer
Wallace PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

24 since 1994

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009FloodFlora$125,000Between Flora and Delphi, Indiana several roads and bridges were badly damaged by flood water. Damage cost is grossly estimated.
May 2009LightningFlora$100,000Abundant 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 2001LightningFlora$70,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFlora$17,000Numerous 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 2009Thunderstorm WindFlora$15,000Thunderstorm winds blew the roof off of a building and downed trees and utility lines. Estimated damage cost is very rough.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindFlora$15,000A pole barn was destroyed.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindFlora$5,000Numerous trees and power lines down by thunderstorm wind gusts across Carroll County.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindFlora$5,000Trees were reported down in the county due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindFlora$500Thunderstorm winds blew down several trees.
October 1996Thunderstorm WindFlora$500no account filed
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFlora-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. This event was relayed via broadcast media.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindFlora-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location, just north of Flora.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindFlora-Wind gust was measured by a trained spotter.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindFlora-Trees were downed.
August 2004Flash FloodFlora-The Carroll County Sheriff reported very high water on at least two roads in Flora.
April 1994Thunderstorm WindFlora-Police vehicle was almost blown off the road by an estimated 60 mph wind.
April 2017HailFlora-no account filed
August 2012HailFlora-no account filed
August 2012HailFlora-no account filed
June 2011HailFlora-no account filed
May 2009HailFlora-no account filed
March 2006HailFlora-no account filed
March 2006HailFlora-no account filed
June 1999HailFlora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Bringhurst1.5 miles9
Camden4.3 miles9
Adams Mill4.7 miles9
Cutler4.9 miles9
Harley Siding5.9 miles9
Harley6.1 miles9
Lexington6.4 miles10
Radnor6.4 miles9

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 FloraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q942879The 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.