Taylorsville, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in German Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47280. It stands on Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Edinburgh quadrangle. 867 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.
On record in Taylorsville
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
Pugh Ford Bridgelisted 1999
Population over time
2 figuresTaylorsville fell from 919 to 867 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 | 919 | |
| 2020 | 867 | -52 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1942 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Edinburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Edinburgh quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Taylorsville between 2004 and 2005, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 October 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 15 October 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Taylorsville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carter Gravel Company | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jefferson Sand and Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
20 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taylorsville in 20 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | 1 hurt, $100,000 | Trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts damaged five cars and an RV with an injury in the RV. |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Taylorsville | $500,000 | Numerous roads closed across the county due to flash flooding. 2 dams went into elevated risk for failure. Total rainfall was between 1.7 and 2.5 inches. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $15,000 | Thunderstorm winds snapped two wooden power poles and a center-pivot sprinkler was overturned in the field north of County Road 800 North. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $10,000 | Large billboard blown over by thunderstorm wind gusts. Measured 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust by a trained spotter. |
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $10,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed numerous tree limbs in the area and folded over a highway sign. Received via Twitter. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $5,000 | Thunderstorm wind gusts sheared off two 18-inch diameter live trees approximately 50 feet up and they fell on a house. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $5,000 | Power lines downed by tree limbs that were knocked down by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| January 2008 | Flash Flood | Taylorsville | $5,000 | Heavy rain caused flash flooding in multiple locations across the county. |
| May 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | $3,000 | Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | - | A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was estimated at this location. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | Thunderstorm produced a few half-dollar hailstones with much quarter-sized hail northwest of the Interstate 65 and US Highway 31 interchange. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Taylorsville | - | Lowland flooding occurred along the East Fork White River in and near Columbus, Indiana. The river crested half a foot above flood stage at the Columbus river gauge on May 16th at a reading of 9.5 feet. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | - | Several trees were downed. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | - | no account filed |
| September 2000 | Hail | Taylorsville | - | no account filed |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taylorsville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Park | 0.2 miles | 15 | |
| North Gate | 2.2 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant View Village | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Lowell | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Flat Rock Park | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Cuba | 3.6 miles | 15 | |
| Corn Brook | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Northcliff | 3.9 miles | 15 |
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 Taylorsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2328436 | 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 444607. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.







