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Summitville, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46070. The Survey maps it on the Alexandria quadrangle. 989 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Summitville within Madison County

On record in Summitville

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Summitville grew from 967 to 989 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
2010967
2020989+22 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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.

In the county-history sources

5,085 words on this township

History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874 names this settlement in its chapter on Van Buren Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Summitville, is in this township, a separate account of which will be given in another place. The general surface of the township is level. It is comparatively new but is improving rapidly, and will soon compare favorably with other townships. The proposed railroad from the lakes to Anderson will pass through this township, and will give them a much needed market. Mud Creek passes through, the eastern part and near Summitville.

Passage source: History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Van Buren Township.

Storms near this place

21 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summitville in 21 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 13 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
June 2022Tornado (EF0)Summitville$115,000NWS Survey confirmed an EF0 skipping tornado tracked 0.57 miles through the town of Summitville. The initial touchdown was west of the waste water treatment plant in a grove of trees. At the plant, a poorly secured roof was partially lifted and pieces strewn downwind in a convergent pattern. A 2x4 was planted into the ground from the southeast which was opposite of the general damage direction. The tornado then skipped through town causing tree and roof damage before causing more significant damage along Mill Street. There, several large tree limbs damaged a car and home with insulation splattered across 3 of the 4 sides of the home. Small amounts of mud splatter was also noted through town. Damage then briefly lessened near the school before 2 large and unhealthy oak trees were snapped. The tornado lifted afterwards with no additional damage.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSummitville$20,000A partial collapse of a pole barn occurred due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Trees were downed as well.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindSummitville$20,000no account filed
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSummitville$10,000Nine power poles knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts with some broken at ground level along County Road 1550 North just west of State Route 9. Power lines down as well. Wind damage to a wheat field just south along County Road 1450 North.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindSummitville$5,000Several trees and some power poles down by thunderstorm wind gusts across mainly northern Madison County.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindSummitville$1,500A large tree was downed with power lines at County Road 1700 North and State Road 9 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2025HailSummitville-Report from mping.
May 2023HailSummitville-Relayed via mPing.
June 2006HailSummitville-A pulse severe thunderstorm briefly produced nickel size hail near Summitville.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindSummitville-Tree limbs and power lines were blown down.
March 2026HailSummitville-no account filed
April 2025HailSummitville-no account filed
April 2024HailSummitville-no account filed
July 2023HailSummitville-no account filed
April 2011HailSummitville-no account filed
June 2006HailSummitville-no account filed
June 2006HailSummitville-no account filed
May 2005HailSummitville-no account filed
May 2005HailSummitville-no account filed
July 2003Flash FloodSummitville-no account filed
June 1995HailSummitville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Alexandria5.5 miles12
Gimco City5.9 miles12
Orestes6.5 miles12
Dundee7.5 miles11
Gilman8.0 miles14
Linwood10.2 miles14
Moonville10.2 miles14
Leisure10.7 miles11

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 SummitvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2406289The 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 444402. 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.