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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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
Benton County Courthouselisted 2008
Fowler Theatrelisted 2004
Fraser & Isham Law Officelisted 2000
Population over time
2 figuresFowler 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,317 | |
| 2020 | 2,337 | +20 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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 Fowler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,723 words on this townshipProgress 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.
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 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton County Highway Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
34 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | $5,000 | The siding on a home was damaged by strong winds. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Shingles were blown off a portion of a roof on a house in the 110 block of East Main Street. |
| February 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Roof damage was reported to outbuildings. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Tree limbs 4 to 8 inches in diameter were blown down throughout Fowler. |
| June 2020 | Heavy Rain | Fowler | - | Rainfall of 7.01 inches was measured in 21 hours. Approximately 5.5 inches of rain fell between 330 pm and 7 pm. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Tree damage was reported in Fowler. |
| July 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Fowler | - | Benton County Emergency Manager relayed reports of funnel clouds, near and south of Boswell and south of Fowler. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | A large limb was blown down. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Trees were blown down. |
| December 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Wind gusts were estimated to 60 mph. |
| March 2007 | Flood | Fowler | - | Two roads closed due to high water. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Seven inch tree limb broken off. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Six inch trees limbs were split and power lines were blown down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Large tree limbs were blown down in the southwest corner of Benton County. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Utility poles and tree limbs blown down. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | Power lines blown down. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | 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 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| November 2011 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| August 2007 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| September 2005 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| October 2001 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Fowler | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barce | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Swanington | 3.3 miles | 9 | |
| Gravel Hill | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Lochiel | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Atkinson | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Wadena | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Earl Park | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Chase | 6.8 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 Fowler | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2413099 | 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 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.





