BlockFontanet, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Nevins Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47874. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brazil West quadrangle. 347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresFontanet fell from 423 to 347 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 | 423 | |
| 2020 | 347 | -76 (-18%) |
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.
- 1950 USGS Brazil West quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Brazil West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Fontanet: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irwin Clay Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fontanet in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fontanet | $150,000 | Thunderstorm winds uprooted numerous trees and seriously damaged several homes. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Fontanet | $3,000 | Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding on Gallagher Road, Baldwin Street and Robertson Road. Following 1-day rainfall of 0.50-1.00 through the morning on the 29th; the area's greatest 1-day rainfall report through the morning of the 30th included 3.38 inches in north-central Vigo County with radar-estimates of 4.00-5.00 inches over the area where flooding occurred. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fontanet | $3,000 | Trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts between Rosedale Road and Gallagher Road. |
| April 2007 | Hail | Fontanet | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Fontanet | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobb | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Coal Bluff | 1.3 miles | 14 | |
| Ehrmandale | 2.8 miles | 14 | |
| Burnett | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Sandcut | 4.3 miles | 15 | |
| Tabertown | 5.6 miles | 18 | |
| Otter Creek Junction | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Seelyville | 5.9 miles | 18 |
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 Fontanet | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q942947 | 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 434631. 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.