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Landess, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46991. It stands on Brushy Run. The Survey maps it on the Van Buren quadrangle. 153 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 866 feet above sea level.

Landess within Grant County

Population over time

2 figures

Landess fell from 188 to 153 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
2010188
2020153-35 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

13,587 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Van Buren Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Van Buren Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Fires near this place

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Landess between 2001 and 2007, burning about 30 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 July 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
18 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
13 April 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
11 April 2005Recreation and ceremony20 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 March 2001Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
3 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Landess in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 1 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
August 2014Flash FloodLandess-Six to eight inches of rain fell over a six hour period, from Marion southeast to the county line. Numerous vehicles were stranded in high water with several feet of water flowing over local roads. A two mile stretch of Interstate 69, between mile markers 263 and 265, was closed in both directions for several hours due to high flowing water. No injuries or fatalities were reported as a result of the flooding.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLandess-Emergency management officials reported a semi was rolled over on Interstate 69, near mile marker 70.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Hanfield1.1 miles11
Shadeland2.6 miles11
Van Buren3.0 miles11
Dooville4.0 miles11
Lake Wood4.0 miles11
Doyle Ferguson4.9 miles11
Friendly Corner5.0 miles11
Farrville5.4 miles11

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 LandessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5969900The 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 437602. 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.

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.