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.
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
Kintner-Withers Houselisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresLaconia 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 50 | |
| 2020 | 73 | +23 (+46%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1931 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Laconia quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Corydon quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Laconia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Laconia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 2001Regional 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 ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2011 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MEADE-OLIN PARK FIRE |
| 4 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 February 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | LILY |
| 16 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 4 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Laconia | $500,000 | Numerous 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laconia | - | Trees were blown down along Mosquito Creek Road near Indiana State Road 111. |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laconia | - | A tree fell on Beech Road. |
| July 2020 | Hail | Laconia | - | There was estimated 1 inch hail that caused damage to vehicles. |
| July 2004 | Hail | Laconia | - | A tree was also blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| September 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Laconia | - | Trees were downed. |
| February 1999 | Hail | Laconia | - | One and three quarter inch hail fell in Laconia |
| March 2025 | Hail | Laconia | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Laconia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tobacco Landing | 1.8 miles | 20 | |
| Cedar Farm Landing | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| New Boston | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Morvins Landing | 4.6 miles | 21 | |
| Rehoboth | 4.8 miles | 20 | |
| Davidson | 4.9 miles | 16 | |
| Dogwood | 5.1 miles | 20 | |
| Gurley Landing | 5.4 miles | 16 |
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 Laconia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q286697 | 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 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.









