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Fowler, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47944. The Survey maps it on the Fowler quadrangle. 2,337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

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Fowler within Benton County

On record in Fowler

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fowler grew from 2,317 to 2,337 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
20102,317
20202,337+20 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

1,723 words on this township

Progress of Education in Benton County, Indiana : with an Explanation of the Indiana School System and the Duties of School Officers, Patrons and Pupils, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Center Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Center sclioul. The first part of the term was taught by Jennie Lane of Lafayette, but it was completed by Elizabeth Young. She also taught the first term in the East Center school which was built in 1872. Laura Lewis, Henrietta, Jessie and William Graham, and ^lary A. Pearson (Chenoweth) were pupils in the summer kitchen school. Matthew H. Walker taught the second term at East Center. The third schoolhouse built was in Fowler, and two other buildings were erected before Prairie became Center township. The country- teachers in 1875-6 were Adelaide Smith, F. J. Brown, Samuel Heisler and T. M. Underwood. The enumeration was seventy-five in 1866 and 109 in 1871. In 1870-1 but one school was taught; the enrollment was seventy-nine, daily average forty-two, days taught 120, teacher's daily wages |1. 871/2? total value of school property in township |360, and forty-six volumes in the librar}'.

Passage source: Progress of Education in Benton County, Indiana : with an Explanation of the Indiana School System and the Duties of School Officers, Patrons and Pupils, published 1906.

Warren B. Sheetz established a graded school at Swanington in 1894, employing Carl McCaslin and Lulu Johnson as the teachers in 1894-5. The people in the vicinity have always taken pride in this school and have done much to uphold it. They are now asking Trustee Hagenbuch to build them a new building and organize a high school. There are 1,210 books in the school libraries of the township. Many of Center's common school graduates have completed the course of the Fowler commissioned high school, and quite a number of them have taken a college course. Mr. Hagenbuch has been both a high school and college student, and is especially anxious that his teachers and schools should be of the best.

Passage source: Progress of Education in Benton County, Indiana : with an Explanation of the Indiana School System and the Duties of School Officers, Patrons and Pupils, published 1906.

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 Center Township.

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 Fowler: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Benton County Highway Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this place

34 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fowler in 34 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 20 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 1 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 2013Thunderstorm WindFowler$5,000The siding on a home was damaged by strong winds.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFowler-Thunderstorm outflow winds on the leading edge of a dust storm blew down numerous trees in and around Fowler. Three houses were damaged by trees, one seriously. Damage to roofs and windows was also reported, along with 15 utility poles snapped. A DOT webcam showed near zero visibility on Route 41 west of Fowler.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFowler-Shingles were blown off a portion of a roof on a house in the 110 block of East Main Street.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindFowler-Roof damage was reported to outbuildings.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFowler-Tree limbs 4 to 8 inches in diameter were blown down throughout Fowler.
June 2020Heavy RainFowler-Rainfall of 7.01 inches was measured in 21 hours. Approximately 5.5 inches of rain fell between 330 pm and 7 pm.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindFowler-Tree damage was reported in Fowler.
July 2016Funnel CloudFowler-Benton County Emergency Manager relayed reports of funnel clouds, near and south of Boswell and south of Fowler.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindFowler-A large limb was blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindFowler-Trees were blown down.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindFowler-Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph.
March 2007FloodFowler-Two roads closed due to high water.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFowler-Seven inch tree limb broken off.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindFowler-Six inch trees limbs were split and power lines were blown down.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindFowler-Large tree limbs were blown down in the southwest corner of Benton County.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFowler-Utility poles and tree limbs blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindFowler-Power lines blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindFowler-Tree limbs and power lines were blown down in Fowler. Pea size hail was also reported. A satellite dish was blown over and twisted south of Fowler.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindFowler-no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFowler-no account filed
November 2011HailFowler-no account filed
June 2008HailFowler-no account filed
June 2008HailFowler-no account filed
August 2007HailFowler-no account filed
April 2006HailFowler-no account filed
September 2005HailFowler-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindFowler-no account filed
May 2004HailFowler-no account filed
May 2004HailFowler-no account filed
April 2003HailFowler-no account filed
October 2001HailFowler-no account filed
April 2000HailFowler-no account filed
June 2000Thunderstorm WindFowler-no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindFowler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Barce2.4 miles9
Swanington3.3 miles9
Gravel Hill3.5 miles9
Lochiel4.1 miles9
Atkinson5.4 miles9
Wadena5.8 miles9
Earl Park6.6 miles9
Chase6.8 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 FowlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2413099The 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 434729. 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.