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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.

Palmyra within Harrison County

Population over time

2 figures

Palmyra 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.

YearPeople Change
2010930
2020898-32 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007Thunderstorm WindPalmyra$20,000Trees were blown on to vehicles in Palmyra.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindPalmyra$15,000The roof was torn off a barn. Power lines and several trees were downed.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-A tree was uprooted near Buffalo Trace Park, just east of Palmyra.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-Several trees were reported down on various county roads.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015Flash FloodPalmyra-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 2015Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-State officials reported several trees down.
June 2006Heavy RainPalmyra-A storm spotter measured 1.85 inches of rain over a two hour period.
April 2017HailPalmyra-no account filed
April 2017HailPalmyra-no account filed
April 2012HailPalmyra-no account filed
June 2009HailPalmyra-no account filed
May 2004HailPalmyra-no account filed
June 2004HailPalmyra-no account filed
May 2003HailPalmyra-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindPalmyra-no account filed
May 1996Flash FloodPalmyra-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Central Barren3.1 miles13
Bradford3.8 miles13
Hancock Chapel4.1 miles14
Ramsey6.3 miles14
Fairdale6.5 miles14
New Salisbury6.5 miles13
Byrneville6.6 miles13
Corydon Junction7.2 miles13

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 PalmyraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1943293The 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.