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Shamrock Lakes, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Licking Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47348. It stands on Little Joe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hartford City West quadrangle. 222 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Shamrock Lakes within Blackford County

Population over time

2 figures

Shamrock Lakes fell from 231 to 222 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
2010231
2020222-9 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 14 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shamrock Lakes in 2004, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 October 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Shamrock Lakes: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Blackford County Highway Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Blackford County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shamrock Lakes in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2011FloodShamrock Lakes-Law enforcement officials reported numerous road closures, including State Road 26 and County Road 200 East. River flooding resulted from the heavy rain and continued into the first part of March. However, only agricultural flooding was noted.
April 2024HailShamrock Lakes-no account filed
May 2005HailShamrock Lakes-no account filed
May 2005HailShamrock Lakes-no account filed
May 1998HailShamrock Lakes-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blackford 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
Hartford City4.1 miles12
Renner4.2 miles14
Hoover Park4.6 miles12
Millgrove8.0 miles12
Roll9.9 miles11
Converse10.0 miles11
Trenton10.3 miles11
Montpelier12.6 miles9

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 Shamrock LakesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q972408The 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 446655. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.