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Gosport, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47433. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gosport quadrangle. 842 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Gosport within Owen County

On record in Gosport

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Gosport grew from 826 to 842 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
2010826
2020842+16 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gosport: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General. 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
Dunn Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Indiana Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

Every working recorded in Owen County

Storms near this place

28 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gosport in 28 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGosport$20,000Thunderstorm wind downed large trees into power lines. Reported via twitter with video.
June 2008Tornado (EF0)Gosport$20,000This tornado formed near Marley Road and Old Boundary Line Road in Owen County. The tornado tracked 3.02 miles to the northeast while in Owen County and passed through Gosport. The tornado moved into Morgan County while moving through an open field. The field is located 3,500 feet east of Drunkards Pike, 1,000 feet north of South Lingle Road, and 1,300 feet south of State Road 67. The tornado continued to the northeast for 1.05 miles in Morgan County before lifting 1,000 feet east of South Vickery Road between State Road 67 and South Lingle Road. This made the total path of the tornado 4.07 miles. The tornado was rated EF-0 while in both counties with wind speeds around 80 miles per hour. The tornado lasted from 1912 to 1916 EST while in Owen County and from 1916 to 1917 EST while in Morgan County. Overall, the tornado was on the ground from 1912 to 1917. The width of the tornado at its peak in both counties was approximately 175 yards. While in Owen County minor damage was sustained to trees, a gas station, a fire station, and residences. While in Morgan County trees, barns, and residences were affected by the tornado. Two young girls were caught outside on property that received the most extensive damage in Morgan County from this tornado. They received minor cuts, scrapes, and bruises from flying debris.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindGosport$17,000Supercell thunderstorm straight line winds gusted to 58-83 mph for 8 minutes from 2202 to 2210 EST, downing at least 3 trees amid dime-sized hail and horizontal rain. Also, a nearby large tree was downed into a barn.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGosport$15,000Trained spotter measured a 71 mph thunderstorm wind gust. Trees and power lines reported down from thunderstorm wind gusts as well.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGosport$10,000Several large trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindGosport$7,000Numerous trees were downed or snapped off above the ground near State Route 67 just north of Gosport due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindGosport$6,000A garage door was blown in due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGosport$5,000Trees, 18 to 24 inches in diameter, were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Some corn was flattened as well.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGosport$4,000Trees were downed and blocking the road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindGosport$2,000Several large tree limbs downed across the road by thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindGosport$2,000Trees were downed and fencing was damaged at a drive-in movie theater near Gosport.
April 2010HailGosport$500Hail to the size of golf balls broke the windshield of a spotter's car.
April 2010HailGosport-WRTV forwarded a report of 3.25 inch hail in Gosport.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGosport-A tree at the corner of 7th Street and Greencastle Avenue was toppled. A large tree nearly 100 yards from the 10 O'clock Treaty Line Monument on SR 67 was uprooted. At the corner of SR 67 and Louisa Street a large tree had the majority of its branches snapped off.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGosport-Trees and limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2006HailGosport-No property damage reported.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindGosport-Trees down
August 1995Thunderstorm WindGosport-Numerous trees were downed.
June 2023HailGosport-no account filed
April 2010HailGosport-no account filed
June 2006HailGosport-no account filed
November 2005HailGosport-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGosport-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGosport-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGosport-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGosport-no account filed
May 1999Thunderstorm WindGosport-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindGosport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owen 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
Silex0.8 miles18
Romona3.7 miles18
Highets Corner5.1 miles18
Carp5.5 miles17
Spencer6.7 miles16
Devore7.1 miles17
Southport7.2 miles16
Cuba7.2 miles17

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 GosportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2211691The 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 435238. 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.