BlockStar City, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46985. The Survey maps it on the Star City quadrangle. 281 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 719 feet above sea level.
Population over time
3 figuresStar City fell from 377 to 281 between 2000 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 377 | |
| 2010 | 344 | -33 (-9%) |
| 2020 | 281 | -63 (-18%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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
- 1962 USGS Star City quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Star City in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star City | $40,000 | A roof came off a house. Damage to another house from fallen trees. Crop damage in numerous locations. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star City | $20,000 | Structural damage to a barn at 2450 E 475 S. Roof and siding blown off and strewn across the road and field. Large limbs also down. |
| March 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star City | - | Local electrical crews reported five broken power poles. Diameter was not known. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Star City | - | Law enforcement reported trees down near Star City. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Star City | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Star City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornhope | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pulaski | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Winamac | 6.0 miles | 10 | |
| Vanmeter Park | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Lawton | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Lakeside | 10.0 miles | 9 | |
| Ripley | 10.5 miles | 9 | |
| Beardstown | 11.7 miles | 10 |
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 Star City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1951633 | 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 444071. 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.
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.