Rensselaer, Indiana

• Open map evidence
• Research guide
• Jasper County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 9 records

• Charles Halleck Student Centerlisted 2016
• Jasper County Courthouselisted 1983
• Oren F. and Adelia Parker Houselisted 2014
• Hugh and Leona Rank Houselisted 2016
• Rensselaer Carnegie Librarylisted 1994
• Rensselaer Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 2012
• Schwietermann Halllisted 2016
• St. Joseph Indian Normal Schoollisted 1973
• David & Sarah Nowels Houselisted 2023

Rensselaer fell from 5,859 to 5,733 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.

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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Rensselaer quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Rensselaer: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rensselaer in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 20 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 4 tornado, 2 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jasper County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 441902. 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.