Palmyra, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Morgan Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47164. The Survey maps it on the Palmyra quadrangle. 898 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPalmyra fell from 930 to 898 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 | 930 | |
| 2020 | 898 | -32 (-3%) |
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.
- 1950 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
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 Palmyra: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluorite Occurrence Number 1 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Fluorite Occurrence Number 1 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmyra in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flash flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | $20,000 | Trees were blown on to vehicles in Palmyra. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | $15,000 | The roof was torn off a barn. Power lines and several trees were downed. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | A tree was uprooted near Buffalo Trace Park, just east of Palmyra. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Several trees were reported down on various county roads. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2015 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | The public reported that many roads were flooded as streams were running out of their banks. Around 2 inches of rain fell across the county, on top of saturated ground. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | State officials reported several trees down. |
| June 2006 | Heavy Rain | Palmyra | - | A storm spotter measured 1.85 inches of rain over a two hour period. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| April 2012 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Palmyra | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Palmyra | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Barren | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Bradford | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Hancock Chapel | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Ramsey | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Fairdale | 6.5 miles | 14 | |
| New Salisbury | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Byrneville | 6.6 miles | 13 | |
| Corydon Junction | 7.2 miles | 13 |
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 Palmyra | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1943293 | 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 440849. 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.






