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Staunton, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Posey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47881. The Survey maps it on the Staunton quadrangle. 472 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Staunton within Clay County

Population over time

2 figures

Staunton fell from 534 to 472 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
2010534
2020472-62 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Staunton: 5 producers, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Clay, 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
C & F Shale Pit 1Clay, StoneProducer
Hoosierville PitClayPast Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plant #2Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plants #'s 3 & 4Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Brazil Brick PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Irwin Clay PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Logan Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Marion Brick Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Staunton in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindStaunton-Trees were reported down in Staunton due to damaging thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Billtown1.6 miles14
Purdy Hill1.7 miles14
Turner1.7 miles17
Twin Beach2.3 miles14
Cloverland2.4 miles14
Cottage Hill2.9 miles14
Billville3.5 miles14
Bee Ridge3.6 miles14

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 StauntonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2625554The 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 449846. 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.