BlockMeridian Hills, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46240. It stands on Meridian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carmel quadrangle. 1,774 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 791 feet above sea level.
On record in Meridian Hills
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Foster Halllisted 2005 · 0.5 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresMeridian Hills grew from 1,616 to 1,774 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 | 1,616 | |
| 2020 | 1,774 | +158 (+10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1952 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Carmel quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
15,135 words on this townshipHistory of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Washington Township - 15,135 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Meridian Hills: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indianapolis 521 Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Eighty-Sixth Street Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Standard Materials Corp S&G Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| U. S. Allied Aggregates, Inc. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meridian Hills in 7 storm reports between 2016 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2017 | Lightning | Meridian Hills | 3 hurt | The IndyStar newspaper reported that a lightning strike at Park Tudor High Schoolinjured three workers who sought shelter under a tree, shocking one into cardiac arrest, the Indianapolis Fire Department says.||A Park Tudor Police Officer shocked the victim in cardiac arrest with a defibrillator once, and thenbegan CPR on the worker until firefighters and medics arrived about 3:50 p.m. The man was shocked twice more beforehe regained a pulseand was resuscitated within 12 minutes.||The workerwas taken to St. Vincent Hospital, where he was awake and talking to doctors.The other two workers were transported to St. Vincent with minor injuries. The three were paving the north corner of the parking lot when a storm appeared, and they sought shelter under a tree. Lightning struck nearby, knocking all three men off their feet.||Initially, the man who suffered cardiac arrest was believed to be killed. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meridian Hills | $3,000 | Garage door was blown in by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meridian Hills | $1,000 | One to two inch diameter tree limbs snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2017 | Flood | Meridian Hills | $1,000 | According to the IndyStar newspaper, two kayakers rescued from the White River Sunday afternoon have been hospitalized. Shortly before 12:30 p.m., police and fire officials were called to the 7300 block Westfield Boulevard for a possible drowning, dispatchers confirmed. The two kayakers had come out of their boats and were stuck in what we call the boil, the rapid churning area of the low-head dam that basically traps you and doesn't let you out, the fire chief said.As crews were getting their boat into the water, the first victim was released from the boil. The fire department said firefighters threw him a rope and life jacket. He was able to grab the rope and hold on with encouragement from people watching from the Monon Bridge above while an off-duty firefighter grabbed bolt cutters to open the fencing and allow crews to carry the boat to the water.||They were able to pull the first victim onto the boat. He was conscious but exhausted, officials said. Meanwhile, the second victim was stuck in the boil, unconscious. When the boat started back up stream to pass the victim to medical crews on shore, the second victim was released from the boil and floated downstream before getting stuck in a strainer underneath the Monon Bridge.||Witnesses said both men, one in his 50s and one in his 40s, were wearing life vests when they first went into the water, but the strength of the rushing water as they were trapped in the boil pulled the vests from their bodies.The kayakers were taken to Methodist Hospital for treatment.Both patients are in critical condition. One was alert and one was not, the fire chief said. Very, very dangerous situation today, this is one of those days when we're asking people not to be on the river today. Water is up well over a foot and a half, maybe two feet. The current is running about 8 knots. It's very swift water today.||One kayaker, 48, pulled from the White River, died Sunday, according to the Indianapolis Fire Department. The second kayaker, 54, has improved since Sunday. |
| June 2016 | Flood | Meridian Hills | $1,000 | Street flooding was occurring along Kessler Boulevard between Meridian Street and Keystone Avenue due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Meridian Hills | $500 | A fence was blown down near this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Also, a road near the intersection of 63rd Street and College Avenue was flooded. |
| June 2016 | Flood | Meridian Hills | $500 | The road at 63rd Street and College Avenue was flooded due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams Creek | 0.8 miles | 17 | |
| Hoover Crest | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Spring Mill Estates | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Ravenswood | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Shore Acres | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Greenbriar | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Delaware Trails | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Wellington | 1.5 miles | 19 |
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 Meridian Hills | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2037871 | 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 439019. 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.