BlockNewberry, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Cass Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47449. It stands on Woodhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lyons quadrangle. 159 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 551 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresNewberry fell from 193 to 159 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 | 193 | |
| 2020 | 159 | -34 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1943 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Lyons quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
677 words on this townshipEarly History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Cass Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
James Madison O'Neal was born in Newbury District, South Carolina, and came to Greene county over forty years ago. He married Miss Sophia Bynum, daughter of William Bynum. Six children was the result of their union - three boys and three girls. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Ellen McElroy,^ Mr. O'Neal is a well-to-do farmer, and a manufiicturer of tobacco, and lives on the farm where Hugh O'Neal settled, nine miles from Bloomfield, on the Newberry road.
Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875.
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 Cass Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Newberry: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Block Coal Underclay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Upper Block Coal Underclay | Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newberry in 13 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 9 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2006 | Flood | Newberry | $100,000 | no account filed |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newberry | $20,000 | no account filed |
| February 2008 | Flood | Newberry | $15,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Newberry, due to heavy rain and snow melt. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Newberry | $12,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Newberry, due to heavy rain. Flooding continued until April 6th at 19:27. |
| March 2008 | Flood | Newberry | $11,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Newberry, due to heavy rain and snow melt. |
| January 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newberry | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down across the county due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2008 | Flood | Newberry | $5,000 | Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Newberry and Elliston, due to heavy rain. |
| April 2007 | Flood | Newberry | $1,000 | The White River remained in flood from March into April in Greene County. Crests were as high as four feet above flood stage. |
| June 2013 | Flood | Newberry | $500 | State Route 57 north of Newberry and State Route 67 north of Lyons were both reported to be flooded due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newberry | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location. |
| May 2010 | Heavy Rain | Newberry | - | Minor flooding was reported in this location as well. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Newberry | - | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of the lowest lowlands along the White River during late December, affecting Greene County at and near Newberry. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Newberry | - | Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Newberry, due to heavy rain. This flooding is a continuation from flooding that began on March 27th at 0730. Flood damage estimates from March are near twelve thousand dollars. |
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.
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 Newberry | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2184692 | 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 440136. 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.