Modoc, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47358. It stands on Deck Run. The Survey maps it on the Modoc quadrangle. 157 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,175 feet above sea level.

Modoc within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Modoc fell from 196 to 157 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	196
2020	157	-39 (-20%)

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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Modoc quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

In the county-history sources

60,303 words on this township

History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The tirst burying ground for Union City was laid out by Hon. Jere Smith and Dr. J, N. Converse, north of the original plat, chiefly between Howard and Plum, and somewhat north of Division street, and including what is now Oak Grove, the elegant residence and grounds of E. L. Anderson, Esq.

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

There were 517 lots for private owners, and Lots 25 and 20 besides. Some burials took place there, but the ground seemed not suitable, and it was but little used, and at this time many, perhaps most or all of the bodies, have been removed.

Other grounds were selected, an association was formed, and a new cemetery was established. Union City Cemetery Association was formed Febmary 4, 1803. The first Trustees were Finloy Maloy, James White, Isaac P. Gray, John L. Roaenbush, Joel N. Converse.

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 Union Township - it names this place 7 more 7 times.

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Modoc in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
October 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Modoc	$15,000	The Randolph County Sheriff reported multiple trees down, with one into a house near Huntsville, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Power outages in rural Randolph County, south of Parker, was also reported.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Modoc	$1,000	Tree limbs of unknown size downed by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2021	Hail	Modoc	-	Report from MPing states half dollar hail.
August 2015	Hail	Modoc	-	Law enforcement out on a call observed the hail.
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Modoc	-	Numerous large limbs were downed.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Modoc	-	4 foot diameter tree down.
September 2005	Hail	Modoc	-	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Modoc	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Modoc	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Modoc	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Modoc	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Scott Corner	3.2 miles	11
Losantville	3.3 miles	11
Huntsville	3.4 miles	12
Pinch	4.4 miles	11
Carlos	5.0 miles	12
Unionport	5.5 miles	12
Buena Vista	5.9 miles	12
Bloomingport	7.1 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 Modoc	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3293484	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 439307. 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.

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.