Ossian, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46777. The Survey maps it on the Ossian quadrangle. 3,266 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 840 feet above sea level.

Ossian within Wells County

Population over time

2 figures

Ossian fell from 3,289 to 3,266 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	3,289
2020	3,266	-23 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Ossian quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ossian in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	$25,000	A large tree was blown down onto power lines as well as a house.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	$10,000	SEVERAL LARGE TREES WERE TOPPLED IN TOWN.
February 2026	Hail	Ossian	-	Hail up to the size of quarters fell for 20 minutes.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	The public reported several six to twelve inch diameter tree limbs were snapped and fell into the intersection of County Road 500 East and 1150 North.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	Forty foot pine tree uprooted across the road. Took down power lines.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Ossian	-	Fields and roadways have standing and flowing water over them. State Road 1 flooded and impassible south of Ossian.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	A trained spotter recorded a 67 mph wind gust.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	Large tree branch down.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	Scattered reports of trees down.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	A large tree was blown down, blocking a local roadway.
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	Emergency management reported trees down in Ossian.
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down in Ossian.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	Large tree limbs down.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	Numerous trees down.
February 2026	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Ossian	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Ossian	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wells 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
Greenwood	2.6 miles	10
Kingsland	3.5 miles	10
Tocsin	4.6 miles	10
Uniondale	5.3 miles	10
Murray	6.4 miles	10
Zanesville	6.6 miles	10
North Oaks	7.2 miles	10
Craigville	8.1 miles	10

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 Ossian	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2137564	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 440726. 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.