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Hanover, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47243. It stands on Happy Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madison West quadrangle. 3,743 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Hanover within Jefferson County

On record in Hanover

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

Hanover grew from 3,546 to 3,743 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
20103,546
20203,743+197 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hanover between 2002 and 2010, burning about 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresBig Oaks National Wildlife RefugeHANOVER HILL
2 July 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 July 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
25 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
17 February 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
30 October 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hanover: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite. 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
Concrete Materials Div Ls QuarryMagnesitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hanover in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2017Thunderstorm WindHanover$20,000The public reported downed trees on some homes.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHanover$20,000A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report that severe thunderstorm winds brought down trees and damaged roofs in the area.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindHanover$5,000Tree branches were blown through windows in homes. A small occupied travel trailer was blown two feet. No one was injured and there was no damage to the trailer.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindHanover$5,000Siding was blown off several homes. Hail was also reported with this event, but the size was undetermined.
April 2026Flash FloodHanover-There were reports of flooding along State Road 56 between Hanover and Madison.
June 2025HailHanover-Dime sized hail was observed near the intersection of Thornton Road and Sycamore Drive in Hanover.
March 2023HailHanover-Golf ball sized hail fell in Hanover.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHanover-Trained spotters reported trees down in the area.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHanover-Trained spotters estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHanover-The public reported trees down in the area.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindHanover-The Jefferson County emergency manager reported to the NWS that several trees were down in the Hanover area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHanover-A spotter in Hanover reported that a power pole was broken in half.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindHanover-The roof of Southwest High School in Hanover was damaged, with several large sections of sheet metal blown off.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHanover-Ham Radio operator measured a 70 mph wind gust in Hanover.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindHanover-Trees and power lines were downed.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindHanover-Trees were downed.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindHanover-Trees down
August 2007HailHanover-no account filed
April 2006HailHanover-no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindHanover-no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodHanover-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Hanover Beach1.2 miles17
Antioch Grange1.6 miles17
Kent3.9 miles9
Saluda4.4 miles17
Smyrna4.7 miles10
Swanville4.9 miles9
Chelsea5.2 miles9
Neavill Grove5.2 miles8

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 HanoverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q139387The 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 435696. 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.

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.