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.
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
Crowe-Garritt Houselisted 1980
Thomas A. Hendricks Librarylisted 1982
St. Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 2000- Hanover College Historic Districtlisted 2024
Population over time
2 figuresHanover 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,546 | |
| 2020 | 3,743 | +197 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1939 USGS Madison West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Madison West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Madison West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Madison West quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Madison quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2002Regional 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/undetermined | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge | HANOVER HILL |
| 2 July 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 July 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 25 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 17 February 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 30 October 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Materials Div Ls Quarry | Magnesite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $20,000 | The public reported downed trees on some homes. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $20,000 | A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report that severe thunderstorm winds brought down trees and damaged roofs in the area. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $5,000 | Tree 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 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | $5,000 | Siding was blown off several homes. Hail was also reported with this event, but the size was undetermined. |
| April 2026 | Flash Flood | Hanover | - | There were reports of flooding along State Road 56 between Hanover and Madison. |
| June 2025 | Hail | Hanover | - | Dime sized hail was observed near the intersection of Thornton Road and Sycamore Drive in Hanover. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Hanover | - | Golf ball sized hail fell in Hanover. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trained spotters reported trees down in the area. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trained spotters estimated wind gusts at 60 mph. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | The public reported trees down in the area. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | The Jefferson County emergency manager reported to the NWS that several trees were down in the Hanover area due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | A spotter in Hanover reported that a power pole was broken in half. |
| February 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | The roof of Southwest High School in Hanover was damaged, with several large sections of sheet metal blown off. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Ham Radio operator measured a 70 mph wind gust in Hanover. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trees were downed. |
| January 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | Trees down |
| August 2007 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hanover | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Flash Flood | Hanover | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanover Beach | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Antioch Grange | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Kent | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Saluda | 4.4 miles | 17 | |
| Smyrna | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Swanville | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Chelsea | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Neavill Grove | 5.2 miles | 8 |
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 Hanover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q139387 | 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 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.







