BlockRising Sun, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Randolph Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47040. It stands on Dry Brook. The Survey maps it on the Rising Sun quadrangle. 2,248 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 502 feet above sea level.
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On record in Rising Sun
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 3 records
Clore Plow Works-J.W. Whitlock and Companylisted 1999
Rising Sun Historic Districtlisted 2006- Speakman-Miller-Kittle Farmlisted 2023
Population over time
2 figuresRising Sun fell from 2,304 to 2,248 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 | 2,304 | |
| 2020 | 2,248 | -56 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1943 USGS Rising Sun quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Rising Sun quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Rising Sun quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Rising Sun quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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 Rising Sun: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burlington Sand | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| O'Day Excavating & Gravel Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
43 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rising Sun in 43 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 32 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 5 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2000 | Flash Flood | Rising Sun | $100,000 | Heavy rainfall caused Bear Creek Road to be closed. Also, the 4th Street Bridge in Rising Sun was washed out. |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $25,000 | Damage occurred to both the high school and elementary-middle schools allowing leaks to produce some water damage. |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $25,000 | A large tree was uprooted and fell on a ranch style house, collapsing part of the home. |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $20,000 | Numerous trees and large branches in Rising Sun where knocked down. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $20,000 | A barn was knocked down and destroyed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. A roof was blown off of a garage and a tree was snapped due to the winds. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $10,000 | A home was damaged and the exterior walls of a barn were collapsed. |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $10,000 | The press box at the high school softball field was destroyed and blown into the road. |
| January 2005 | Flash Flood | Rising Sun | $10,000 | Several roads in and around town were flooded and closed. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $8,000 | A car park roof was uplifted and a small outbuilding sustained damage. |
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $5,000 | A few trees were blown down. |
| November 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $5,000 | Numerous trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds. |
| June 1997 | Flash Flood | Rising Sun | $5,000 | Heavy rainfall caused Rt. 56 to flood to the north of Rising Sun. |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in the Rising Sun area. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | Numerous trees and limbs were blown down. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | Trees and powerlines were downed. |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | A few large tree limbs were downed. |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | Trees were knocked down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | Trees and limbs were downed. |
| April 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | A few trees were knocked down. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | Trees knocked down. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $3,000 | no account filed |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $2,000 | A couple of trees were downed along Nelson Road outside of Rising Sun. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $2,000 | A tree fell onto a power line near 2nd Street. |
| July 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $2,000 | One tree and one large limb were knocked down. |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $2,000 | Large limbs were knocked down. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $2,000 | Trees were knocked down across the county. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $1,000 | A large tree was uprooted along Main Street. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $1,000 | One tree was knocked down on Nelson Road. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $1,000 | Two trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | $100 | Several large tree limbs were downed. |
| November 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | - | The public relayed the wind gust report. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Rising Sun | - | Nelson Road was flooded and impassable. |
| May 2004 | Flash Flood | Rising Sun | - | Roads were flooded near State Route 56. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Rising Sun | - | Heavy rains washed debris onto State Route 262, closing that road for a short period of time. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rising Sun | - | Winds gusted to 60 mph. |
| April 2025 | Hail | Rising Sun | - | no account filed |
| October 2016 | Hail | Rising Sun | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Rising Sun | - | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Rising Sun | - | no account filed |
| April 1995 | Hail | Rising Sun | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Shor | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Norths Landing | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Buffalo | 5.2 miles | 19 | |
| Cofield Corner | 5.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hartford | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Bascom Corner | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Aberdeen | 7.7 miles | 12 | |
| Blue | 8.2 miles | 8 |
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 Rising Sun | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1921486 | 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 449718. 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.