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Rocky Ripple, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46208. It stands on Highwood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Indianapolis West quadrangle. 655 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Rocky Ripple within Marion County

On record in Rocky Ripple

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 within a mile 9 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Rocky Ripple grew from 606 to 655 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
2010606
2020655+49 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

In the county-history sources

15,135 words on this township

History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 15,135 words.

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 Rocky Ripple: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Standard Materials Corp S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
U. S. Allied Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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
Highwoods0.6 miles19
Crows Nest0.7 miles19
North Crows Nest1.3 miles19
Shooters Hill1.3 miles19
Mapleton1.4 miles19
Spring Hills1.4 miles19
Woodstock1.6 miles19
Knollton Heights1.6 miles19

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 Rocky RippleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3299854The 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 442234. 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.