Lagrange, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Bloomfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46761. The Survey maps it on the Lagrange quadrangle. 2,715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

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Lagrange within LaGrange County

On record in Lagrange

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

Bloomfield Township Graded Schoollisted 2022

Population over time

2 figures

Lagrange grew from 2,625 to 2,715 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	2,625
2020	2,715	+90 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1947 USGS Lagrange quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Lagrange quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Lagrange quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lagrange: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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
	Lagrange Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
	Lambright Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lagrange in 48 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 34 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
May 1997	Tornado (F0)	Lagrange	1 hurt, $1,500,000	no account filed
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$60,000	Numerous trees downed with some on cars. Power lines down across town and a barn was destroyed.
November 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$50,000	LAKELAND HIGH SCHOOL HAD ONE AUDITORIUM WALL BLOWN IN BY THE STRONG WINDS.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$20,000	A few trees and large limbs down along with downed power lines. About 350 to 400 customers without power.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$15,000	Trees were reported down in and around the city of Lagrange.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$15,000	Trees were reported down in Lagrange, with one tree falling onto a parked car. A car also struck a buggy somewhere in the county as a result of heavy rain. No further details were available.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$15,000	Several large trees were knocked down around Oliver Lake. An 18 inch diameter apple tree was uprooted on the west side of the lake. An 20 inch diameter tree was knocked down onto a pontoon and lift and a 31 inch diameter tree was snapped at the base, with an aluminum flag pole being snapped off. Damage amount estimated.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$10,000	Several trees limbs and power lines were blown down in the city of Lagrange at the intersection of Mountain and Michigan streets.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$10,000	Barn destroyed. Trees and power lines down.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	$5,000	Emergency Manager reports multiple trees down.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	A trained spotter estimated a 50 knot wind gust.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Numerous limbs and trees down.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Law enforcement officials reported a tree was blown down in the area of County Road 1800 N on 075 E.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Local media reported a six inch diameter maple tree trunk was blown down. There was some indications of rot.
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Emergency management officials reported widespread tree damage in town. There was a partial roof and wall collapse at Parkside School.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Emergency management officials reported several large trees limbs were down across the county.
July 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Lagrange	-	A NWS survey found damage consistent with a EF-1 tornado in a larger area of straight line wind damage. The tornado touched down just west of LaGrange on US-20 East of County Road 100 West, where tree limb damage was observed. The tornado tracked east towards LaGrange, uprooting and snapping trees as it entered the town south of the local hospital. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped just west of South County Road 00 East between US-20 and Grant Street. The tornado produced minor structural damage to homes along Grant Street before lifting just west of South Mountain Street. Maximum winds were estimated at 95 mph.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Local officials reported a power line down at the intersection of County Roads 1290 North and 300 East.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Law enforcement officials reported several trees down with power outages throughout the county.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	A report of a tree being blown down, landing on a SUV, was found posted on Facebook.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down throughout the county.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	A local newspaper reported a large tree limb, roughly 18 inches in diameter, was blown down by the strong winds, landing on the north side of the county courthouse. No damage occurred to the building from the tree limb.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Emergency management officials reported numerous trees and power lines down, along with a few power poles snapped. A few trees were reported to have fallen on cars and houses, but no specific damage or details were provided.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	A large tree was reported blown down.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Several large trees were blown down 8 miles northeast of Lagrange. As the storm continued east, a vehicle was blown off the Indiana Toll Road at mile marker 132, near the Lagrange and Steuben county line. No injuries were reported.
May 2004	Hail	Lagrange	-	Law enforcement reported softball size hail in Howe, northwest of the city of La Grange.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Law enforcement reported trees down northeast of the city of La Grange.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Trees were reported down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Trees and power lines down.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Large limbs down.
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	Trees down.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
October 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES WERE BLOWN DOWN IN THE TOWN.
June 2019	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
September 2014	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
May 2003	Hail	Lagrange	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lagrange	-	no account filed
June 1994	Hail	LaGrange	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaGrange 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Woodland Hills	0.8 miles	14
Northwood	0.9 miles	14
Valentine	3.9 miles	12
Plato	4.5 miles	13
Ontario	4.6 miles	14
River Oaks	4.9 miles	14
Seyberts	6.5 miles	9
Woodruff	6.6 miles	14

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 Lagrange	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2055185	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 437511. 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.