Roann, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Paw Paw Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46974. It stands on Squirrel Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roann quadrangle. 441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Roann within Wabash County

On record in Roann

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 5 records

Halderman-Van Buskirk Farmsteadlisted 2013
Thomas J. Lewis Houselisted 2006
Roann Covered Bridge, 4thlisted 1981
Roann Historic Districtlisted 2013
Roann-Paw Paw Township Public Librarylisted 2002

Population over time

2 figures

Roann fell from 479 to 441 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	479
2020	441	-38 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Roann quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Storms near this place

11 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roann in 11 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 6 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	$500	Large tree limbs down, including a 10-inch diameter branch near Adams and Church roads.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Hog barn destroyed by strong wind gust.
May 2011	Flash Flood	Roann	-	Law enforcement officials reported a trailer park was being flooded by high water, resulting in the evacuation of many of the residents. No damage estimates were available.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Emergency management officials reported several trees down in the Roann area.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Roann	-	Emergency management officials reported several empty grain bins blown over.
May 2011	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Roann	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wabash 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Stockdale	1.1 miles	11
Ijamsville	5.9 miles	11
Disko	6.3 miles	10
Laketon	6.4 miles	11
Newton	6.7 miles	11
Urbana	7.0 miles	11
Speicherville	8.1 miles	13
Bolivar	8.1 miles	11

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 Roann	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2767029	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 442128. 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.

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.