BlockRolling Prairie, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Kankakee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46371. The Survey maps it on the New Carlisle quadrangle. 562 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 830 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresRolling Prairie fell from 582 to 562 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 | 582 | |
| 2020 | 562 | -20 (-3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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 Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS New Carlisle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rolling Prairie: 1 producer. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rolling Prairie in 9 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolling Prairie | $1,000 | Large tree down. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolling Prairie | $500 | Public reports large branches are down. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolling Prairie | - | The public reported estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolling Prairie | - | Emergency management officials reported trees and power lines down. |
| August 2012 | Tornado (EF1) | Rolling Prairie | - | Emergency management officials, in coordination with NWS officials, indicated an area of damage associated with a line of severe thunderstorms, was consistent with an EF1 tornado near Rolling Prairie. Damage was first noted near the intersection of State Route 2 and County Road 400 East, where a few trees fell onto power lines. As the circulation skipped along the ground, additional trees were blown down near the intersection of State Route 2 and County Road 450. The most substantial damage occurred at a residence of the along the 4600 block of Oak Knoll Road. A south-east facing garage door failed, which allowed the winds to enter the garage and blow out the north wall of the garage (DI: MDWH, DOD: 3.) The circulation also rolled and destroyed an un-anchored shed at the same residence. A barn was also destroyed northeast of this residence before the circulation lifted. The maximum width of the circulation was 20 yards. The maximum wind speed is estimated at between 85 and 90 mph. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rolling Prairie | - | A roof was ripped off a house. |
| March 2019 | Hail | Rolling Prairie | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Rolling Prairie | - | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Hail | Rolling Prairie | - | 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.
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 Rolling Prairie | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7361206 | 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 442265. 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.