Morristown, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Hanover Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46161. It lies near Hog Back. The Survey maps it on the Morristown quadrangle. 1,205 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 833 feet above sea level.
On record in Morristown
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 1 record
Junction Railroad Depotlisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresMorristown fell from 1,218 to 1,205 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 | 1,218 | |
| 2020 | 1,205 | -13 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Morristown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Morristown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caldwell Pit and Mill | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morristown in 18 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Tornado (EF0) | Morristown | 1 hurt, $75,000 | An EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 75 mph was discovered in northeast Shelby County to the north of Morristown. Numerous trees were snapped along and just east of the Big Blue River and Asbury Road from near County Road 1100 North to the Shelby-Hancock County line. Two homes sustained minor damage, and a gentleman sustained injuries from a tree falling on his automobile. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | $20,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed gas station canopy in Morristown. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | $10,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a residence. Multiple small tree limbs downed and a few larger limbs. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree across US Highway 52 near Morristown. Power outage also reported across Morristown. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | $1,000 | A tree, two feet in diameter, was reportedly downed in this location. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | $750 | Tree limbs, six to eight inches in diameter, were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | $500 | A tree was reported down in this location due to thunderstorm wind gusts. No information on the health of the tree was provided. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Morristown | - | This report was relayed through broadcast media. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | - | Trees were blown down in a cemetery due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | - | Trees were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | - | Tree were blown down over the road due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 1993 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | - | Trees were downed. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Morristown | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Morristown | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Morristown | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | - | no account filed |
| September 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Morristown | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freeport | 1.8 miles | 8 | |
| Gwynneville | 2.8 miles | 8 | |
| Fountaintown | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Marion | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Knighthood Village | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Rays Crossing | 8.4 miles | 11 | |
| Meiks | 8.7 miles | 12 | |
| Knighthood Grove | 8.8 miles | 12 |
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 Morristown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1970199 | 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 439467. 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.



