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.
Population over time
2 figuresLandess 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 188 | |
| 2020 | 153 | -35 (-19%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Van Buren quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
13,587 words on this townshipThe 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 2001Regional 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 burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 June 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 13 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 11 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 March 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 3 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Flash Flood | Landess | - | 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 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Landess | - | Emergency management officials reported a semi was rolled over on Interstate 69, near mile marker 70. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanfield | 1.1 miles | 11 | |
| Shadeland | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Van Buren | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Dooville | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Lake Wood | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Doyle Ferguson | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Friendly Corner | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Farrville | 5.4 miles | 11 |
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 Landess | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5969900 | 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 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.




