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New Amsterdam, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47110. It lies near Blue Spring Hollow. The Survey maps it on the New Amsterdam quadrangle. 12 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 449 feet above sea level.

New Amsterdam within Harrison County

Population over time

2 figures

New Amsterdam fell from 27 to 12 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
201027
202012-15 (-56%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of New Amsterdam between 1999 and 2011, burning about 61 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2011Railroad operations and maintenance12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCEMEX FIRE
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Amsterdam: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Battletown MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cape Sandy Quarry #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Amsterdam in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Tornado (F0)New Amsterdam$50,000There was major roof damage to a barn just south of New Amsterdam. A mobile home in New Amsterdam was tossed about a hundred yards into the Ohio River. Witnesses spotted a tornado before the mobile home was blown away.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam-There were trees down in downtown New Amsterdam.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam-Trees were downed. Public estimated an 80 mph wind gust.
July 2008HailNew Amsterdam-no account filed
February 2002HailNew Amsterdam-no account filed
March 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Amsterdam-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
Valley City2.8 miles21
Titus3.5 miles15
Dixie5.2 miles22
Glidas5.7 miles21
Central6.2 miles21
Mauckport6.6 miles21
Morvins Landing8.5 miles21
White Cloud9.1 miles22

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 New AmsterdamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1072327The 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 440016. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.