Southport, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47460. It stands on Elliston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spencer quadrangle. It stands 558 feet above sea level.

Southport within Owen County

On record in Southport

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 5 records

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

Spencer Public Librarylisted 2007 · 0.5 miles away
Spencer Town Hall and Fire Stationlisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
Owen County Courthouselisted 1994 · 0.6 miles away
Allison-Robinson Houselisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Spencer Presbyterian Church and Manselisted 2020 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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.

1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Spencer quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Southport: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Owens Co. Hwy. Dept	Stone	Producer
Spencer Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dunn Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Spencer 520 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Spencer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Winders & Sons Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Owen County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Southport in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Southport	1 hurt, $20,000	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Southport	$100,000	A house at the 1500 block of Freeman Road had structural damage from thunderstorm wind gusts when a tree fell on the house. Trees were downed all along Freeman road from the 1000 block of Freeman Road to State Road 43. There was also some tree damage on Hardscrabble Road from State Road 43 to the 2800 block of Hardscrabble Road where a pole barn had the door blown in and south wall blown out.
April 2025	Flash Flood	Southport	$25,000	Water from Lake Hollybrook is flooding onto road. Numerous roads closed. Total rainfall ranged from 3.4 to 4.1 inches.
February 2008	Flood	Southport	$15,000	Flooding occurred along the White River in Owen County, including near Spencer, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
December 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Southport	$5,000	At least 4 trees down by thunderstorm wind gusts prompted Indiana Route 67 closed between Carp and Freedom.
April 2009	Flood	Southport	-	Minor flooding occurred along the White River in and near Spencer, Indiana. The river crested 4.4 feet above flood stage at the Spencer river gauge on April 8th at a reading of 18.4 feet. A river level of this height typically affects parks, fairgrounds, county roads, and drive ways of residences.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Southport	-	A tree was down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Southport	-	Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2007	Hail	Southport	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owen 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Spencer	0.7 miles	16
Highets Corner	3.1 miles	18
Hancock Corner	3.6 miles	16
Romona	3.9 miles	18
Braysville	4.6 miles	17
Pottersville	5.6 miles	17
Freeman	5.8 miles	24
Vandalia	6.1 miles	16

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 Southport	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30623135	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 443879. 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.