New Paris, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46553. The Survey maps it on the Goshen quadrangle. 1,587 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

New Paris within Elkhart County

Population over time

2 figures

New Paris grew from 1,494 to 1,587 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	1,494
2020	1,587	+93 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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 Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Goshen quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Jackson township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Elkhart County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities ... and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-historic Races .., published 1881 - Jackson Township

History Of Elkhakt Countt

Catharina J., Mark B., Lafayette H. and one who died young. Mark B. enlisted in the Union army during the Eebellion, and was killed in the battle of Jonesboro, Georgia. He was a worthy young man, and his loss was severely felt in the family circle. Mr. Thompson's patriotism was manifested by sending three boys to the army during the Eebellion, and by carrying on the farm alone at the age of 60.

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In the county-history sources

18,451 words on this township

History of Elkhart County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities ... and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-historic Races .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

New Paris, and then makes a jog for about 20 rods to the west, when it assumes a southerh' direction for one-half mile, when it angles to the southwest. This was the first laid-out road in the township, and was surve\'ed bj' Mr. Crawford, Mr. Thomas Hall . piloting him from Logansport to Goshen.

Passage source: History of Elkhart County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities ... and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-historic Races .., published 1881.

Mr. Landgraver, livery-keeper in New Paris, is the owner of a sawmill in that place which does a good business. There are also in this little village two wagon shops and one of the largest elevators in the county, all doing a paying business; Messrs. Johnson & Son are men of business capacity and know just how to build up a grain trade.

New Paris has several stores and the usual mechanics, and is particularly noted for the manufacture of wagons and carriages. The construction of the C, W. & M. railroad added much to the prosperity of the town, and was the cause of other improvements. A large saw-mill is cutting up thousands of logs every season. Johnson & Son purchase large quantities of wheat and other produce for shipment, and are also doing a banking business. The town has a fine brick school-building, and there is an average of a hundred'pupils attending the school.

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 Jackson Township - it names this place 9 more 9 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of New Paris: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Elkhart County Gravel, Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Elkhart Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Goshen Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Elkhart County

Storms near this place

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Paris in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 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
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	$50,000	A metal barn was partially destroyed. Metal was thrown into nearby trees.
August 2005	Hail	New Paris	$10,000	A severe thunderstorm became stationary for nearly an hour just southeast of Goshen. Hail ranging from quarter size to tennis ball size was reported from New Paris northwest to 3 miles southeast of Goshen. Reports were receive of vehicle damage, as well as window and siding damage on several residences.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	$200	Trees down 4 miles SSW of New Paris.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	Several reports of downed trees across the county.
May 2018	Hail	New Paris	-	Reported one mile west of the intersection of US 6 and SR 15.
May 2018	Hail	New Paris	-	A trained spotter reported dime to golf ball size hail.
July 2014	Hail	New Paris	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail on US 6, just east of State Route 15.
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	Amateur radio operators reported a 10 to 12 inch diameter tree was blown down across the road.
October 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	An amateur radio operator reported a tree down at County Roads 29 and 46.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	Tree fell on the road 1 mile north of US 6 on SR 15.
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	Trees and power lines down.
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	An off duty NWS employee reported large tree limbs down.
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	Eight inch branches down on north side of New Paris.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	Tree blown down.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	New Paris	-	NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS DOWN
January 2006	Hail	New Paris	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	New Paris	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elkhart 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
Bainter Town	1.3 miles	12
Waterford Mills	3.0 miles	12
Benton	3.6 miles	12
Foraker	5.2 miles	12
Goshen	5.7 miles	12
Southwest	6.6 miles	12
Millersburg	7.3 miles	12
Midway	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 New Paris	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2433531	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 440093. 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.