Owensburg, Indiana
21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47453. It lies near Tunnel Hill. The Survey maps it on the Owensburg quadrangle. 402 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresOwensburg fell from 406 to 402 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 | 406 | |
| 2020 | 402 | -4 (-1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 21 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.
- 1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1935 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Oolitic quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Owensburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS Owensburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Owensburg between 2004 and 2005, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 2004 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | COUNTY FARM |
| 6 March 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | GOAT ISLAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owensburg in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Owensburg | $30,000 | A weak tornado briefly touched down and caused roof and wall damage to a single house. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owensburg | $25,000 | Many trees snapped due to thunderstorm wind gusts between 4999 and 5312 South Owensburg Road. |
| May 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owensburg | - | A tree was blown down by thunderstorm winds. |
| November 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owensburg | - | Trees were downed along State Road 45 near Owensburg. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owensburg | - | Numerous trees and power lines down |
| April 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owensburg | - | Several power lines were blown down in the west end of the county at 0049 EST. Several trees were blown down in the southeast end of county at Owensburg. |
| April 2024 | Hail | Owensburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Owensburg | - | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Owensburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Owensburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobbieville | 5.4 miles | 21 | |
| Koleen | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Doans | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cincinnati | 6.7 miles | 22 | |
| Tanner | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Park | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Scotland | 9.3 miles | 14 | |
| Ridgeport | 9.3 miles | 15 |
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 Owensburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7114763 | 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 451310. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.









