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Homecroft, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46227. It stands on Derbyshire Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maywood quadrangle. 752 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Homecroft within Marion County

On record in Homecroft

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Homecroft grew from 722 to 752 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
2010722
2020752+30 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

In the county-history sources

9,757 words on this township

History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perry Township - 9,757 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Homecroft: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Indianapolis 522 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Indianapolis Haveisen 510 MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Indianapolis Haveisen 510 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kelsay & York Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Kentucky Avenue SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
R.L. Schutt Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Homecroft in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2026: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$5,000An 80 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location. Trees and tree branches downed.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$1,000Thunderstorm winds downed two hardwood branches.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$1,000A tree was uprooted near US Highway 31 and Edgewood Avenue due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHomecroft$750Large branches or part of the main trunk split off of a tree near Banta Road and Highway 31 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-A 71 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at this location.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-An 80 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-Trained spotter estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
March 2016HailHomecroft-Ping pong sized hail was observed near Southport High School.
June 2010Flash FloodHomecroft-Rainfall runoff was reported to be flowing over the road at U. S. 31 and Stop 12.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-Thunderstorm winds blew down scattered tree limbs and apparently was the cause of a power outage at US Route 31 and Shelby Street.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindHomecroft-10" diameter trees blown down onto houses and RVs
May 2014HailHomecroft-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Southport0.4 miles17
Twin Brooks0.6 miles17
Edgewood1.0 miles17
Perry Manor1.3 miles17
Lindenwood1.4 miles17
Rosedale Hills1.6 miles17
University Heights2.4 miles17
Glenns Valley4.0 miles17

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 HomecroftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2432529The 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 436370. 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.