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New Pekin, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Pierce Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47165. The Survey maps it on the Salem quadrangle. 1,323 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

New Pekin within Washington County

On record in New Pekin

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

New Pekin fell from 1,401 to 1,323 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
20101,401
20201,323-78 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

In the county-history sources

4,686 words on this township

Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Pierce Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

At present the Church of Christ has good congregations at New Pekin ami College Hill. The Methodist churches at Pekin and Mt. Pleasant are in a prosperous condition, and the Missionary Bapti.sts hold regular services at Blue River.

Passage source: Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916.

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 Pierce Township.

Storms near this place

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Pekin in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 6 flash flood. 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
July 2025Flash FloodNew Pekin-A camper was carried by flood waters and folded underneath a bridge on Shorts Corner Road.
July 2025Flash FloodNew Pekin-Water began to enter a house in New Pekin.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015Flash FloodNew Pekin-State officials reported that an unusual amount of roads had high water running over them due to heavy rainfall, forcing them to be barricaded. Between 1 and 2 inches of rain fell on top of very saturated ground.
December 2015Flash FloodNew Pekin-Washington County law enforcement officials reported to the NWS that roads in and around Pekin were closed due to high water from excessive rainfall.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Local media relayed a report of an estimated 60 mph wind gust near New Pekin. Several trees were toppled in and around the town.
April 2014Flash FloodNew Pekin-Several intersections in New Pekin were briefly impassable due to high water.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-A spotter just south of New Pekin reported that three trees were uprooted.
March 2012HailNew Pekin-Baseball sized hail from the second of two supercells that affected New Pekin damaged many cars and buildings.
March 2012HailNew Pekin-This hail came from the second of two supercells that traversed essentially the same path.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-A trained spotter reported trees were blown down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Trees were reported down.
May 2011Flash FloodNew Pekin-The Blue River was out of its banks and flooded roads and bridges.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Several trees were downed along Daisy Line Road.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Trees were downed.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindNew Pekin-Trees down across southeast Washington County
June 2016HailNew Pekin-no account filed
March 2012HailNew Pekin-no account filed
June 2006HailNew Pekin-no account filed
May 2003HailNew Pekin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Old Pekin0.9 miles14
Farabee3.6 miles15
Daisy Hill4.1 miles9
Martinsburg4.2 miles14
Shorts Corner4.4 miles14
Blue River4.5 miles9
South Boston5.7 miles9
Harristown6.4 miles15

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 PekinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2167940The 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 440094. 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.