Lanesville, Indiana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47136. It stands on Little Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lanesville quadrangle. 935 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresLanesville grew from 564 to 935 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 | 564 | |
| 2020 | 935 | +371 (+66%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 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.
- 1909 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:48000
- 1912 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1950 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:62500
- 1951 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lanesville: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluorite Occurrence #1 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Fluorite Occurrence #1 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
19 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lanesville in 19 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | $60,000 | A mobile home was overturned. Several porches were blown off. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | $50,000 | An off duty NWS employee reported 6 power poles down on Crandall-Lanesville Road. |
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Lanesville | $30,000 | The Harrison County emergency manager reported that a residence on Barren Avenue in Lanesville had 3 feet of water inside as a result of torrential rainfall and slow moving thunderstorms. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | $5,000 | Dispatch reported power lines down blocking one lane of traffic on State Road 62 NE. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | Trees fell down in Lanesville due to high winds. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Lanesville | - | This report came from mPing. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | An off duty NWS employee reported trees down about 1 mile south of Interstate 64 exit to Lanesville. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Lanesville | - | A trained spotter reported nickel size hail. |
| December 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | A trained spotter reported to the NWS that severe thunderstorm winds brought down 3 to 4 large trees. |
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | Local emergency management reported numerous trees and limbs downed near Lanesville. Trees were reported downed near High Ridge Lane, Saint John's Church Road, and in downtown Lanesville. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | A NWS employee relayed 2 reports of estimated 60 mph wind gusts in the Lanesville Area. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | Several trees were blown down. |
| August 2009 | Flash Flood | Lanesville | - | Little Indian Creek in Lanesville was flooding and entering the basements of some buildings on the north side of State Road 62. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | One half inch hail was also reported in Lanesville with this storm. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | Trees down |
| March 2025 | Hail | Lanesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Lanesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lanesville | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Lanesville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breckenridge | 2.8 miles | 21 | |
| Kings Store | 4.6 miles | 21 | |
| Lottick Corner | 5.1 miles | 19 | |
| Crandall | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Bridgeport | 5.9 miles | 19 | |
| New Middletown | 6.1 miles | 21 | |
| Locust Point | 6.1 miles | 19 | |
| Harrison Grange (historical) | 6.3 miles | 21 |
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 Lanesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2962926 | 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 437616. 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.










