BlockGreens Fork, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47345. It stands on Pale Run. The Survey maps it on the Greens Fork quadrangle. 335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresGreens Fork fell from 423 to 335 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 | 423 | |
| 2020 | 335 | -88 (-21%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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 Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Greens Fork quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
3,340 words on this townshipHistory of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872; Memoirs of Wayne County and the City of Richmond Indiana, published 1912 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Clay Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Clay Township - 3,340 words.
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greens Fork in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood. 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 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greens Fork | $25,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed across central and southeast portions of Wayne County. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Greens Fork | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2025 | Flood | Greens Fork | - | Several roads remained closed due to high water, especially north of U.S Route 40. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Greens Fork | - | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Hail | Greens Fork | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoover Mill | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| West Grove | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| College Corner | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Jacksonburg | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Williamsburg | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Webster | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Pinhook | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Hiser | 5.7 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 Greens Fork | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2184855 | 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 435450. 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.
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.