BlockOsceola, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Penn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46561. It stands on Baugo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Osceola quadrangle. 2,590 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 738 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOsceola grew from 2,463 to 2,590 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 | 2,463 | |
| 2020 | 2,590 | +127 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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.
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000
- 1969 USGS Osceola quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Penn township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
History Of St. Joskph County. S25
Philip Manchester, sec. 4; was l)orn in Washington county, Penn., iSej)!. 28, ISOS, and is a son of Benjamin and Agnes (Doddridge) Manchester, the former a native of Rhode Island, and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. M's brothers and sisters were captured by the Indians during the troubles early in this century.
In the county-history sources
25,242 words on this townshipHistory of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Penn Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Zelotes Bancroft was born in the town of Castile, N. Y., Oct. 23, 1831. At a very early age he was placed at work in a flouringmill, which vocation he has followed for the njost part during life. He came with his parents to this county in 1837. He was married June 1, 1865, to Miss Sarah Masten, by whom he has had 4 children, one living, viz.: Zelia. He is proprietor ot Bancroft's flouring-mill at Osceola, of which we have given a history. William Bancroft, deceased, the father of Zelotes, was born in Granville, Mass., was a carriage and wagon-maker by trade; he removed to New York in 1826, where he engaged in lumbering as well as the prosecution of his trade. He was married Dec. 24, 1828, to Miss JEmeline Belden, by wliom he had 6 children; 5 of these are living: Zelotes, Alma, Ruth, Emeline and Louisa.
Passage source: History of St. Joseph County, Indiana :, published 1880.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Osceola: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pit No. 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osceola in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Tornado (F1) | Osceola | $300,000 | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Lightning | Osceola | $100,000 | A power line down caused by lightning set a church on fire. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | - | Several large trees were blown down. Structure damage was reported to at least 1 home in the town, with a car also being crushed and back window broke out by another tree. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Osceola | - | Reported at County Line Road and Baugo Park |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Osceola | - | HAM radio operator reported trees down near Osceola. |
| June 1998 | Hail | Osceola | - | SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN TOWN. |
| April 2000 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Osceola | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasant Valley | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Mishawaka | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Tamarack Grange | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Granger | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Hi-View Addition | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Maple Lane | 7.9 miles | 14 | |
| Woodland | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Crest Manor Addition | 9.0 miles | 11 |
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 Osceola | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2286753 | 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 452723. 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.