Greensboro, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Greensboro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46148. It stands on Ten Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Castle West quadrangle. 123 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Greensboro within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Greensboro fell from 143 to 123 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	143
2020	123	-20 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1949 USGS New Castle West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS New Castle West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

3,249 words on this township

History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Greensboro Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Greensboro Township was named afcer a Horth Carolina town from which many of the old settlers of this locality came. The township was founded Sept. 7, 1831, and then included all that part of the territory of Henry Township west of the range line dividing townships 9 and 10." Thus it was seven miles from east to west and six from north to south. In 1838 the northern part of Greensboro was given to Harrison, and an addition of four square miles made to Greensboro from Wayne and Franklin townships.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884.

This township is well watered and fertile. The principal streams are Blue River, Montgomery's Creek and Six-Mile Creek. A considerable portion of the surface is rolling. Gravel is abundant and the soil good. Farms and improvements show that the people are industrious and thrifty. The population of the township in 1880 was 1,44:5, of which number 223 were in the town of Greensboro.

Settlement commenced in 1821 and. for many years progressed but slowly. Jacob Wood, Samuel Pickering and others came in the summer of 1821. Jacob Elliott came out and built a cabin in the fall of 1821, and went back for his family with which he returned in 1822. Jonas Pickering came from Ohio and cut a road from Hew Castle to the river, near Greensboro. Other early set-

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Greensboro Township - it names this place 13 more 13 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greensboro: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fred Goodier Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
James L. Craig Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
New Castle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Omar V. Davis Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greensboro in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2012: 6 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensboro	$5,000	Trees were reported down near Kennard due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensboro	-	Trees were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensboro	-	Damaging winds caused two large trees to be uprooted.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensboro	-	Trees were blown down.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensboro	-	A tree was downed.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Greensboro	-	4 to 5 inch live tree limbs down.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stone Quarry Mills	2.2 miles	10
Mount Lawn	2.5 miles	11
Spiceland	2.9 miles	10
Kennard	3.5 miles	8
Westwood	4.0 miles	11
Grant City	4.1 miles	9
Woodville	5.0 miles	8
Dunreith	5.2 miles	10

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 Greensboro	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2156562	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 435452. 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.