BlockSomerset, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Waltz Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46984. It stands on Muddy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Somerset quadrangle. 385 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 810 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSomerset fell from 401 to 385 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 | 401 | |
| 2020 | 385 | -16 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 13 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Wabash 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 Somerset: 1 past producer. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mcginnis Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somerset in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2002: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerset | $30,000 | A Law enforcement reported several trees down as well as 2 barns and a silo destroyed. |
| June 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerset | $25,000 | Numerous trees and power lines were downed across the southern part of the county. |
| May 2002 | Hail | Somerset | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Somerset | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Somerset | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Somerset | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Somerset | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Vernon | 0.2 miles | 13 | |
| College Corner | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Treaty | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| La Fontaine | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Pioneer | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| America | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| South Haven | 7.9 miles | 13 | |
| Wabash | 8.9 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 Somerset | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5643751 | 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 443764. 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.