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Francesville, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Salem Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47946. The Survey maps it on the Francesville quadrangle. 852 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Francesville within Pulaski County

On record in Francesville

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Francesville fell from 879 to 852 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
2010879
2020852-27 (-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.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Francesville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Francesville Clay PitClayPast Producer
Francesville Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ward Stone CompanyCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Francesville in 15 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 10 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 1994Tornado (F2)Francesville$500,000The tornado touched down near Francesville in southwest Pulaski County then tracked northeast across the entire county entering extreme northeast Fulton county 1.1 miles northeast of Monterey at 2313 EST. It then crossed into extreme southwest Marshall county 3.7 miles southwest of Culver at 2315 EST and lifted at 2321 EST about 2.5 miles southeast of Culver. The tornado destroyed five farm buildings, and damaged numerous others. One home was destroyed. A mobile home was lifted off the ground and placed on top of a car. Dozens of large trees were uprooted at Tippecanoe River State Park north of Winamac. The tornado damage path was intermittent.
March 2023HailFrancesville$500A report on mPING indicated half-inch hail.
May 2011HailFrancesville-An intense storm allowed for hail to fall for around 15 minutes. The hail varied in size, with the largest stone up to the size of golf balls.
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Francesville-A survey of damage in the Francesville area found indications of a brief circulation touchdown. The circulation touched down just west of U.S. 421 and tracked quickly east northeast across 421, knocking over five power poles. A pole barn was destroyed near the intersection of Bill and James Street with trees blown down in the 400 block of East Montgomery. The width of the tornado was no more than 50 yards with maximum winds estimated between 80 and 85 mph.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFrancesville-Law enforcement officials reported power poles down on U.S. 421 near Francesville. In addition numerous trees were blown down across the county.
June 2008HailFrancesville-Law enforcement officials and spotters report hail as large as tennis balls falling from the storm in the Francesville area. As the storm moved rapidly northeast towards Winamac, hail continued to fall but slowly decreased in size with golf ball size hail reported southwest of Winamac and then quarter size hail being reported in Winamac. One more round of hail slightly larger than golf balls was reported southwest of Monterey before the storm moved into Marshall County.
June 2006HailFrancesville-Hail damage to crops
July 2003Thunderstorm WindFrancesville-Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.
July 2001Tornado (F0)Francesville-Tornado crossed into Pulaski county from Jasper county and traveled for about one mile beforelifting. Funnel cloud was visible for another 15 minutes before dissipating near the Pulaski and Whitecounty line. Tornado was down in corn field.
June 2019HailFrancesville-no account filed
March 2012HailFrancesville-no account filed
August 2004HailFrancesville-no account filed
May 2001HailFrancesville-no account filed
July 1994HailFrancesville-no account filed
July 1994HailFrancesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Medaryville6.6 miles9
Lakeside8.3 miles9
Clarks10.2 miles10
Pulaski11.7 miles9
Radioville12.1 miles10
Ripley14.1 miles9
Denham14.5 miles9
Winamac15.3 miles10

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 FrancesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2071745The 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 434752. 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.