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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.

Morristown within Shelby County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Morristown 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,218
20201,205-13 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Caldwell Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

18 since 1993

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Tornado (EF0)Morristown1 hurt, $75,000An 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 2023Thunderstorm WindMorristown$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed gas station canopy in Morristown.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindMorristown$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed a tree onto a residence. Multiple small tree limbs downed and a few larger limbs.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindMorristown$2,000Thunderstorm winds downed a tree across US Highway 52 near Morristown. Power outage also reported across Morristown.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMorristown$1,000A tree, two feet in diameter, was reportedly downed in this location.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMorristown$750Tree limbs, six to eight inches in diameter, were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindMorristown$500A tree was reported down in this location due to thunderstorm wind gusts. No information on the health of the tree was provided.
May 2011HailMorristown-This report was relayed through broadcast media.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMorristown-Trees were blown down in a cemetery due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMorristown-Trees were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindMorristown-Tree were blown down over the road due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindMorristown-Trees were downed.
May 2011HailMorristown-no account filed
May 2009HailMorristown-no account filed
April 2006HailMorristown-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMorristown-no account filed
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMorristown-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindMorristown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Freeport1.8 miles8
Gwynneville2.8 miles8
Fountaintown4.7 miles9
Marion6.4 miles12
Knighthood Village7.0 miles11
Rays Crossing8.4 miles11
Meiks8.7 miles12
Knighthood Grove8.8 miles12

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 MorristownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1970199The 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.