Grovertown, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Oregon Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46531. The Survey maps it on the Hamlet quadrangle. It stands 725 feet above sea level.

Grovertown within Starke County

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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hamlet quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Hamlet quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grovertown in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Grovertown	$10,000	Tornado developed 2 miles southwest of Ancilla College and quickly intensified to EF1 intensity as it raced northeastward. The tornado caused extensive tree and generally minor structural damage across the Ancilla College campus and Gilbert lake. Here the tornado widened to 750 yards before contracting down as it continued northeast. A mobile home was torn from its anchored undercarriage and overturned, injuring one inside. Several homes sustained generally minor siding and roof damage. Two barns just northeast of Ancilla college were flattened. Strong inflow winds were noted at many locations just east/southeast of the tornado track.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Grovertown	-	The local dispatch center reported a tree was blown down onto the road North of Oak Grove.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Grovertown	-	Multiple reports of trees down on houses and corn flattened. A large tree was also blocking a roadway.
October 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Grovertown	-	A 70 MPH thunderstorm gust reported by Ham radio operator in Grovertown.
April 2018	Hail	Grovertown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Starke 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
Koontz Lake	3.1 miles	10
Oak Grove	6.1 miles	10
Ober	7.3 miles	11
Knox	8.4 miles	11
Indian Hill	10.1 miles	11
Winona	10.2 miles	10
Brems	10.5 miles	11
Bass Lake	12.7 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 Grovertown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5611569	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 449664. 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.