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Knightsville, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brazil Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47834. It stands on Harm Run. The Survey maps it on the Brazil East quadrangle. 702 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Knightsville within Clay County

On record in Knightsville

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 within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Knightsville fell from 872 to 702 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
2010872
2020702-170 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Knightsville in 2001, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 October 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Knightsville: 6 producers, 4 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Coal, Clay, Stone. 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
C & F Shale Pit 1Clay, StoneProducer
Cardonia PitClay, CoalPast Producer
E and E Clay PitClayProducer
Hoosierville PitClayPast Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plant #2Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plants #'s 3 & 4Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Brazil Brick PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Irwin Clay PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Logan Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Marion Brick Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knightsville in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Thunderstorm WindKnightsville$10,000Trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts near the intersection of US Highway 40 and County Road 100 East along with structural damage to a 3 car garage.
April 2007Tornado (EF0)Knightsville$3,000The initial tornado touchdown was reported by a storm spotter at 4:20 P.M. EDT in Harmony, about 22 miles east of Terre Haute . Minor tree damage resulted from this storm in addition to damage to a metal carport and a shed. This tornado was rated EF0 on the Enhanced Fujita intensity scale with winds estimated around 70 mph.
October 2020FloodKnightsville$1,000Standing water noted at the intersection of US 40 and County Road 100 East.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindKnightsville-A 64 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured by the public.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindKnightsville-A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated by a trained spotter at this location.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindKnightsville-Numerous trees down.
March 2025HailKnightsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Brazil0.7 miles14
Donaldsonville0.8 miles14
Harmony0.8 miles14
Billville1.7 miles14
Shady Lane1.8 miles14
Cottage Hill2.0 miles14
Benwood2.4 miles14
Cardonia2.5 miles14

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 KnightsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3292442The 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 437396. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.