Poneto, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46781. It stands on Elm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle. 173 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 850 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresPoneto grew from 166 to 173 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 | 166 | |
| 2020 | 173 | +7 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Poneto between 2003 and 2004, burning about 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 June 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 14 April 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poneto in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 1998 | Tornado (F1) | Poneto | $150,000 | THIS WAS ONE OF SEVERAL TORNADOES PRODUCED FROM THE SAME SUPERCELL THAT DEVELOPED ACROSS HOWARD COUNTY. THIS BRIEF SPINUP CAUSED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO ALL OUTBUILDINGS ON ONE FARM, 2 FARM HOMES SUFFERED EXTENSIVE DAMAGE, 5 OTHER HOMES SUFFERED MINOR TO MODERATE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. |
| October 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poneto | $100,000 | A barn was destroyed, which contained three horses. Two of the horses were rescued, with the third being killed from the weight of the barn. Debris was pushed to the adjacent rail road tracks to the east. |
| July 1994 | Hail | Poneto | $50,000 | A tornado touched down at State Route 218, just west of County Road 300 West. The tornado touched down several times over a one-half mile path, creating minor damage estimated at $5000. Twelve trees were damaged with large limbs blown down, a mobile home was damaged when a tree fell on it, and minor damage was done to a home. Some crop damage was noted in a corn field. The tornado moved east-northeast and lifted at County Road 300 West and State Route 218. |
| July 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Poneto | $50,000 | A tornado touched down at State Route 218, just west of County Road 300 West. The tornado touched down several times over a one-half mile path, creating minor damage estimated at $5000. Twelve trees were damaged with large limbs blown down, a mobile home was damaged when a tree fell on it, and minor damage was done to a home. Some crop damage was noted in a corn field. The tornado moved east-northeast and lifted at County Road 300 West and State Route 218. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Poneto | $40,000 | Photo on Facebook of 2.5 inch hail. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poneto | $30,000 | Structural damage occurred to a barn. Powerlines and trees downed as well. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poneto | $7,000 | Law enforcement reported a grain silo down and a roof blown off a home northwest of Poneto. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Poneto | $4,000 | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Hail | Poneto | $1,500 | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Hail | Poneto | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2024 | Hail | Poneto | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poneto | - | Several large tree branches were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | 0.3 miles | 11 | |
| Wellsburg | 0.6 miles | 11 | |
| Travisville | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Reiffsburg | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| Liberty Center | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Keystone | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Petroleum | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Mount Zion | 6.0 miles | 9 |
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 Poneto | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2458790 | 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 441431. 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.



