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Laconia, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47135. The Survey maps it on the Laconia quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Laconia within Harrison County

On record in Laconia

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

Laconia grew from 50 to 73 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
201050
202073+23 (+46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Laconia between 2001 and 2016, burning about 23 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 April 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMEADE-OLIN PARK FIRE
4 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresHoosier National ForestLILY
16 February 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Laconia: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
No. 4 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laconia in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2008Flash FloodLaconia$500,000Numerous roads in the county were flooded, including portions of Indiana Highway 11. Big Indian Creek near Corydon was flooding, with trailers and vehicles under water. Flood waters from Big Indian Creek were close to Indiana Highway 335.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLaconia-Trees were blown down along Mosquito Creek Road near Indiana State Road 111.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindLaconia-A tree fell on Beech Road.
July 2020HailLaconia-There was estimated 1 inch hail that caused damage to vehicles.
July 2004HailLaconia-A tree was also blown down by thunderstorm winds.
September 2003Thunderstorm WindLaconia-Trees were downed.
February 1999HailLaconia-One and three quarter inch hail fell in Laconia
March 2025HailLaconia-no account filed
April 2007HailLaconia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Tobacco Landing1.8 miles20
Cedar Farm Landing4.2 miles16
New Boston4.5 miles16
Morvins Landing4.6 miles21
Rehoboth4.8 miles20
Davidson4.9 miles16
Dogwood5.1 miles20
Gurley Landing5.4 miles16

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 LaconiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q286697The 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 437494. 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.