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Friendship, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47042. It stands on Raccoon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cross Plains quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Friendship within Ripley County

On record in Friendship

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

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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Friendship in 2004, burning about 5 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 ceremony1

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
28 February 2004Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ripley County

Storms near this place

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 23 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 9 flood, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindFriendship$15,000The roof was ripped off a building and multiple trees were knocked down.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindFriendship$10,000Large trees were blown down, a large porch was destroyed, and a carport was knocked off its foundation and thrown several yards two miles west of Farmers Retreat.
March 2023FloodFriendship$5,000Laughery Creek was out of its banks, covering State Route 62. A high water rescue was needed after a vehicle drove into the water.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFriendship$3,000A couple of large tree limbs were downed.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindFriendship$3,000Trees were knocked down.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindFriendship$2,000Tree limbs were reported down on power lines in the area.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindFriendship$2,000Trees knocked down.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindFriendship$1,000A tree was downed across State Route 62 near the intersection with South Cave Hill Road.
September 2018FloodFriendship$1,000High water along Laughery Creek left several roads impassable. State Route 62 was closed due to high water and two cars were trapped in the high water.
March 2026FloodFriendship-S Cave Hill Road was closed due to high water for about two miles between S County Road 350 E and IN-62.
February 2025Flash FloodFriendship-Indiana 62 was closed near Friendship due to high water from Laughery Creek.
April 2024FloodFriendship-High water was reported on roads in the Friendship area.
February 2022FloodFriendship-State Route 62 was closed due to high water near Laughery Creek.
June 2019FloodFriendship-Route 62 remained closed for a significant stretch due to flooding.
June 2019Flash FloodFriendship-Emergency Management and law enforcement both reported that several roads across the southern half of the county, especially near Friendship, and north of Friendship were impacted due to flash flooding.
September 2018FloodFriendship-High water was reported across State Route 62.
June 2016Flash FloodFriendship-The fire department reported roadways with 1.5 feet of water over them. Some low lying roadways had up to six feet of water covering them.
June 2016FloodFriendship-High water was reported in the Friendship area in normal areas that flood.
September 2016Flash FloodFriendship-Laughery Creek was reported out of its banks.
September 2016FloodFriendship-Rising water along Laughery Creek caused flooding over a portion of State Route 62 near Friendship.
October 2016HailFriendship-no account filed
June 2013HailFriendship-no account filed
March 2010HailFriendship-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ripley 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
Dewberry1.3 miles9
Cross Plains3.5 miles9
Olean4.0 miles9
Benham5.5 miles8
Elrod5.9 miles13
Correct7.8 miles9
Haney Corner8.7 miles8
Stringtown8.9 miles13

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 FriendshipAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5504363The 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 434856. 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.

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.