BlockHaysville, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Harbison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47546. It stands on Haysville Run. The Survey maps it on the Jasper quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1946 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
1,134 words on this townshipHistory of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Harbison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Haysville is the oldest town in the township. On April 30, and on October i, 1816, and again on November 28, 1S17, Joseph Kelso entered land upon which Haysville is situated. The original plat of Haysville is lost. It is said to have been laid out in 1835, as a town, by Judge Moses Kelso.
Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.
Judge Willis Hays donated part of the land upon which Haysville is located. He built the first Methodist church at Haysville and was its minister. His remains lie buried at Sherritt's. He was the father of Mrs. Allen McDonald.
Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.
Joseph Kelso is said to have been the first settler at Hay.sville. Judge Moses Kelso was a leading citizen of this village, and he was for a while a judge of the court. In 1840, there was a wool carding machine at Haysville. The early merchants include the names of Johnson and Mahan, Gibson Brown, Elias and Bruner, and James S. Brace.
Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.
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 Harbison Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Storms near this place
9 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haysville in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Haysville | $30,000 | The tornado touched down in an open field 1.6 miles west of Haysville, destroying a metal outbuilding. After traveling over primarily open farmland - snapping trees in wooded areas along the way - the tornado entered the west side of Haysville. It uprooted and snapped the trunks of several more trees before tearing off the roof of a modular home just north of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. The tornado continue east of Highway 231, snapping trees and downing power lines before dissipating in an open field east of town. |||(thoughbefore estroying an An EF-1 Tornado touched down 1.6 miles west of Haysville and lifted just east of Haysville. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haysville | - | A broken power line pole and lines were partially in one lane of traffic. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haysville | - | A few trees were blown down in Haysville. |
| August 2023 | Tornado (EF1) | Haysville | - | The National Weather Service conducted a storm damage assessment survey in Dubois County Indiana from the storms just after midnight Monday morning August 7. The first damage point had a few topped and twisted trees near County Rd 200 West and Haysville Rd. Wind speeds were 85 mph with a width of 60 yards. At County Road|150 W. and Haysville Rd they were tree snapped and twisted and a cinder block building collapsed. Winds increased to EF1 90 mph with a width of 75 yards. Further east along Haysville Road, all the way to Haysville US 231, there were trees twisted, topped, snapped and uprooted. There was a baseball park home plate fencing that came apart and was thrown 25 yards and moved 20 degrees to the north. Wind speeds were consistent at 90 mph with a width of 90 yards.||On Indiana 56 in Haysville there were several barns, outbuildings and one business with substantial roof and gutter damage. Winds were between 90 and 95 mph with a width of 100 yards. Along Indiana 56 there was a lot of tree damage with snapped and uprooted trees facing from a north northeast direction to a east southeast direction. At 1011 West Haysville Rd. there was a greenhouse that was thrown 60 yards and moved 30 degrees to the north, and two barns sustained roof damage.||At East County Road 725 North there was a single residence home that lost its entire roof, and debris from that house was on three sides of the adjacent house with some windows blowing out. The homeowner described the harrowing experience of holding down his family as the roof started breaking away. He described an intense earache and a loud noise that lasted 15 seconds. Four barns experienced extensive roof and siding damage. Wind speeds in this area were 100 mph, with a width of 100 yards. Drone photography showed damage from the barns went up to 200 yards to the east and northerly directions.||Sadly there were several barns damaged at a turkey farm on N. Hickory Grove Rd with many poultry killed. Further east on N. County Rd. 575 W. there were a couple of large barns that had extensive roofing damage that was thrown a couple hundred yards to the east northeast. Max Wind speeds were 100 mph and the width was 125 yards. Tornado damage continued along both sides of Indiana 56 with trees and barns taking the most damage. There were at least 10 barns that had significant roofing damage between Kellerville and Crystal. In the Crystal community along East Cuzco Rd North, there were many trees that were snapped. Homes in this area had shingles removed, soffits, facia, and gutter damage, and one garage sustained significant roofing and siding damage. Winds in this area were 95 mph with a width of 125 yards.||A few single family homes, as well as smaller farm outbuildings, sustained considerable wind damage (95mph) just north of State Road 56 on N Crystal Road. A freestanding garage had its roof uplifted and blown towards the east side of the property. The southern wall of the garage was also missing. The adjacent home had evidence of mud splatter on its southern and eastern wall. Trees in the vicinity of the home were snapped in a converging pattern. Drone imagery from the patch of forest just to the east of the home indicates tree convergence in an easterly direction for an area about 150 yards wide. Most of the trees in this area were snapped and uprooted with very few still standing. The path of destruction appears to weaken east of this point.||Multiple homes along East Old State Rd 56 experienced significant wind damage from various directions. Most homes saw the loss of roof covering and had mud splatter on the southern and western walls. Debris appeared to cover large distances as well with some debris being found a quarter of a mile to the east. The most eastern house on the road saw the most damage where the eastern side of the house (garage portion) was completely separated from the main home and shifted from its foundation. The front of the garage which was faced to the NW, seemed to have twisted and rolled towards the southeast. The roof and structure of the garage totally collapsed. Trees in the vicinity are tilted towards the south while some fell towards the east. The debris hit the western wall and some mud splatter was observed on the western and southern wall.||The tornado continued to the east where it crossed into Orange County. |
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haysville | - | A couple trees were blown over Indiana State Road 56 near Haysville. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haysville | - | A tree was reported down across 231, north of Haysville. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Haysville | - | The Dubois County emergency manager reported a tree down across State Highway 231 near Hayesville. |
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Haysville | - | An EF-0 tornado with winds speeds up to 80 mph was confirmed near Haysville. At the beginning point of this tornado a few small trees, some dead, were blown over and branches were blown off of some of the trees. Several trees were blown over in Haysville. The most intense damage occurred as the tornado lifted east of Haysville in the woods along Indiana 56. At that point several trees up to two feet in diameter were blown down. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Haysville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portersville | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Kellerville | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Dubois Crossroads | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Thales | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Dubois | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Jasper | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Ireland | 6.6 miles | 15 | |
| Crystal | 8.6 miles | 13 |
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 Haysville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5687276 | 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 435928. 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.