Mooreland, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blue River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47360. It stands on Number Four Arm. The Survey maps it on the New Castle East quadrangle. 335 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Mooreland within Henry County

Population over time

2 figures

Mooreland fell from 375 to 335 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	375
2020	335	-40 (-11%)

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.

1950 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

7,700 words on this township

Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871; History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Blue River Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The original boundaries of Henry county were not identical with those of the present day, and, as a consequence, the boundaries of the townships lying on the east and west borders of the county underwent some change when the new boundaries

Passage source: Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871.

The Indiana, Bloomington & Western Kailroad was built through this township in 1882. A small village, a station on the road, has since sprung up. It is known as Mooreland and was laid out in September, 1882. It contains two stores, one saw-mill and planing-mill, one agricultural implement store, one grain elevator, and has about 100 population. Dr. D. Clapper is the physician. A postoffice was established March 8, 1882; Harvey Main, Postmaster. Marcus Holliday is the present Postmaster.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884.

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 Blue River Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooreland in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2012: 2 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooreland	$5,000	Trees and power lines were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Mooreland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Messick	3.1 miles	11
Blountsville	4.4 miles	11
Hillsboro	4.7 miles	11
Rogersville	4.9 miles	13
Millville	5.0 miles	11
Ashland	5.7 miles	11
Van Nuys	6.0 miles	11
Foley	7.1 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 Mooreland	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q304430	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 439408. 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.