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.
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 figuresJalapa 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 171 | |
| 2020 | 182 | +11 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS La Fontaine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS La Fontaine quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
8,751 words on this townshipThe 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 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jalapa Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mcginnis Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 | Hail | Jalapa | $1,000 | no account filed |
| September 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jalapa | - | Tree down across road. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jalapa | - | A trained spotter recorded a 58 mph gust on State Road 15 at the Grant and Wabash county line. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jalapa | - | The public reported power lines down at County Road 400 North and 300 West. |
| June 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jalapa | - | Trees down. |
| May 2019 | Hail | Jalapa | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Jalapa | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Jalapa | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Sweetser | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Shady Hills | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Westwood Square | 5.5 miles | 12 | |
| Mier | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Marion | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Roseburg | 7.4 miles | 12 | |
| Shadeland | 7.4 miles | 11 |
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 Jalapa | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5548786 | 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 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.





