BlockKirklin, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Kirklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46050. The Survey maps it on the Kirklin quadrangle. 710 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.
On record in Kirklin
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
Kirklin Public Librarylisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresKirklin fell from 788 to 710 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 | 788 | |
| 2020 | 710 | -78 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Kirklin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,439 words on this townshipCombination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Kirklin Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This township was so named in memory of Nathan Kirk, to whom is due the honor of being the first white man in the eastern part of Clinton County. Some claim that Kirk was the first man in the county, but it is probable, from the most reliable authority, that William Clark settled on the west end of the Twelve Mile Prairie
Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.
In 1830, William Harris, of whom we have spoken in the history of Sugar Creek Township, moved to Kirklin Township, fixing his home on what is now the Charles Bridgeford farm. It being now generally known that a permanent settlement was being made in this locality, before the close of the year 1830, the following persons came and east their lot with the infant colony; Henry Percifield, on the Moses Gee farm; John Russell, on the farm owned by his daughter Jane; David Galbreath, on the farm belonging to Charles Bridgeford and John Foster; location unknown.
Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.
In 1832, Benjamin Bickley, father of C. H. Bickley, merchant of Kirklin, settled on the farm owned by the latter. Others of the same year were William Boils, on the Abraham Whittaker farm, and Adam Vincell, on the farm of Allen Williams.
Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.
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 Kirklin Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirklin in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirklin | $5,000 | Roof damage was noted at State Road 421 and County Road 400 South due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Pea sized hail was also noted at this location. |
| April 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirklin | $5,000 | Trees were reported down near County Road 1000 East due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirklin | $2,000 | Multiple large, healthy tree limbs were downed across County Road 500 South due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirklin | $1,500 | A tree was downed along with some utility lines due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirklin | $1,000 | A two foot diameter tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Kirklin | - | Thunderstorm hail caused damage to roof and siding of home in Kirklin. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Kirklin | - | no account filed |
| December 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kirklin | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclone | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Pickard | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Hillisburg | 6.5 miles | 9 | |
| Boyleston | 6.7 miles | 9 | |
| Scircleville | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Reagan | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Antioch | 8.1 miles | 10 | |
| Risse | 8.8 miles | 9 |
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 Kirklin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2043959 | 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 437357. 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.