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Florence, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in York Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47020. It stands on Turtle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle. 60 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Florence within Switzerland County

Population over time

2 figures

Florence fell from 80 to 60 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
201080
202060-20 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Florence between 2009 and 2014, burning about 9 acres 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
Recreation and ceremony3

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
22 April 2014Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVERA CRUZ
9 March 2009Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2014Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVERA CRUZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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 Florence: 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
Warsaw PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Switzerland County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florence in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindFlorence$25,000A car was overturned and there was significant structural damage in the 14000 block of Bethel Ridge Road. The damage was consistent with winds in the 65 to 85 mph range.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFlorence$20,000About 20 trees were downed along State Route 156, east of Florence.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFlorence$10,000A few trees were downed and a roof was blown off of a mobile home.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindFlorence$6,000A garage sustained roof damage on Bethel Ridge Road. Also, a few small trees were knocked down.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFlorence$5,000Several trees were downed.
February 2000Flash FloodFlorence$5,000Water flooded across State Route 156 near the Markland Dam.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindFlorence$3,000Several trees were downed in the Florence area, including one on State Route 156 and one on Beatty Ridge Road.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindFlorence$1,000A tree was downed on Route 156 due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2007HailFlorence$1,000no account filed
September 2016Thunderstorm WindFlorence$200A large pine tree limb was downed.
February 2022FloodFlorence-High water was reported on Log Lick Road.
June 2021HailFlorence-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Switzerland 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
Markland3.3 miles11
Quercus Grove4.8 miles11
Searcy Crossroads5.6 miles12
Antioch5.6 miles11
Gurley Corner6.2 miles12
Patriot6.4 miles12
Center Square6.7 miles12
East Enterprise7.0 miles11

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 FlorenceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q11681872The 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 434612. 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.