Merom, Indiana
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Gill Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47861. It sits by Merom Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Merom quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.
On record in Merom
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 3 records
Union Christian Collegelisted 1982- Merom Site and Fort Azatlanlisted 1975
- Merom-Gill Township Carnegie Librarylisted 2019
Population over time
2 figuresMerom fell from 228 to 208 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 | 228 | |
| 2020 | 208 | -20 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 20 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.
- 1943 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Hutsonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Merom quadrangle1:24000
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Merom: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Crawford S & G East Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Crawford S & G South Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Graysville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lawrence Gravel #2 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Turner Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merom in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2009: 6 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2009 | Flood | Merom | $5,000 | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to considerable lowland flooding along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near Riverton. This flood event is a continuation from December. |
| January 2008 | Flood | Merom | $1,000 | Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Sullivan County, including the Riverton area, due to heavy rain and snow melt. The flooding began on December 13th and continued into January. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Merom | - | Extensive flooding occurred along the Wabash River in/near Riverton, IN. The river crested 5.5 feet above flood stage at the Riverton river gauge on March 19th with a reading of 20.5 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects rural roads, agricultural land, and isolates river cabins. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Merom | - | Extensive flooding of lowland occurred along the Wabash River around the Riverton, Indiana area. The river crested at 19.5 feet on April 14th, 4.5 feet above flood stage. Flooding continued into May. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Merom | - | Flooding occurred along the Wabash River around the Riverton, Indiana area. The river crested twice in May. The primary crest was 21.8 feet on May 22nd and the secondary crest was 18.6 feet on the 8th. Flood stage is 15 feet. This flooding was a continuation from April. Crop damage value is a gross estimate. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Merom | - | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to considerable lowland flooding along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Sullivan County at and near Riverton. This flood event continued into January. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Merom | - | A tree was reported down on State Route 58. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Merom | - | Trees were down in Merom due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Merom | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merom Station | 2.3 miles | 20 | |
| Riverton | 2.5 miles | 20 | |
| Graysville | 4.3 miles | 20 | |
| New Lebanon | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Dodds Bridge | 7.3 miles | 19 | |
| Sullivan | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Benefiel Corner | 9.8 miles | 18 | |
| Paxton | 9.8 miles | 15 |
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 Merom | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2580784 | 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 439023. 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.









