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.
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
John Linsey Rand Houselisted 1994- Friendship Stone Arch Bridgelisted 2019
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 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.
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Cross Plains quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional 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 ceremony | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
23 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $15,000 | The roof was ripped off a building and multiple trees were knocked down. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $10,000 | Large 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 2023 | Flood | Friendship | $5,000 | Laughery Creek was out of its banks, covering State Route 62. A high water rescue was needed after a vehicle drove into the water. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $3,000 | A couple of large tree limbs were downed. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $2,000 | Tree limbs were reported down on power lines in the area. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $2,000 | Trees knocked down. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Friendship | $1,000 | A tree was downed across State Route 62 near the intersection with South Cave Hill Road. |
| September 2018 | Flood | Friendship | $1,000 | High 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 2026 | Flood | Friendship | - | S Cave Hill Road was closed due to high water for about two miles between S County Road 350 E and IN-62. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Friendship | - | Indiana 62 was closed near Friendship due to high water from Laughery Creek. |
| April 2024 | Flood | Friendship | - | High water was reported on roads in the Friendship area. |
| February 2022 | Flood | Friendship | - | State Route 62 was closed due to high water near Laughery Creek. |
| June 2019 | Flood | Friendship | - | Route 62 remained closed for a significant stretch due to flooding. |
| June 2019 | Flash Flood | Friendship | - | 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 2018 | Flood | Friendship | - | High water was reported across State Route 62. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Friendship | - | 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 2016 | Flood | Friendship | - | High water was reported in the Friendship area in normal areas that flood. |
| September 2016 | Flash Flood | Friendship | - | Laughery Creek was reported out of its banks. |
| September 2016 | Flood | Friendship | - | Rising water along Laughery Creek caused flooding over a portion of State Route 62 near Friendship. |
| October 2016 | Hail | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| June 2013 | Hail | Friendship | - | no account filed |
| March 2010 | Hail | Friendship | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dewberry | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Cross Plains | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Olean | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Benham | 5.5 miles | 8 | |
| Elrod | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Correct | 7.8 miles | 9 | |
| Haney Corner | 8.7 miles | 8 | |
| Stringtown | 8.9 miles | 13 |
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 Friendship | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5504363 | 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 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.




