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Jalapa, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46952. The Survey maps it on the La Fontaine quadrangle. 182 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Jalapa within Grant County

On record in Jalapa

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

Jalapa grew from 171 to 182 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
2010171
2020182+11 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

8,751 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Pleasant Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jalapa: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Jalapa PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcginnis Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jalapa in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2024HailJalapa$1,000no account filed
September 2021Thunderstorm WindJalapa-Tree down across road.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindJalapa-A trained spotter recorded a 58 mph gust on State Road 15 at the Grant and Wabash county line.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindJalapa-The public reported power lines down at County Road 400 North and 300 West.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindJalapa-Trees down.
May 2019HailJalapa-no account filed
April 2017HailJalapa-no account filed
May 2011HailJalapa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Fox2.8 miles12
Sweetser4.1 miles10
Shady Hills4.6 miles12
Westwood Square5.5 miles12
Mier5.6 miles10
Marion6.6 miles12
Roseburg7.4 miles12
Shadeland7.4 miles11

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 JalapaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5548786The 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 436915. 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.