Shadeland, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47909. The Survey maps it on the Romney quadrangle. 1,757 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 620 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresShadeland grew from 1,610 to 1,757 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 | 1,610 | |
| 2020 | 1,757 | +147 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Romney quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Shadeland: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rostone Crp/ Lafayette Oprtns. | Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Rostone Crp/ Lafayette Oprtns. | Aluminum | Plant | ||
| Casi Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Elwood Sales | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Fairfield Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Lafayette Portable Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Macy's Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Taylor Station | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shadeland in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shadeland | $12,500 | A hog barn roof was torn off and trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts near the intersection of County Roads 500 W and 75 S. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shadeland | - | no account filed |
| April 2003 | Hail | Shadeland | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Elston | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Summit | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Norma Jean Addition | 3.5 miles | 18 | |
| Altamont Switch | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| West Lafayette | 4.2 miles | 18 | |
| McQuinn Estates | 4.4 miles | 18 | |
| Tecumseh | 4.5 miles | 13 |
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 Shadeland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2678935 | 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 443237. 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.




