Thayer, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Lincoln Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46381. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Thayer within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Shelby quadrangle1:24000

Storms near this place

8 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thayer in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2008	Flood	Thayer	$1,000,000	Extensive flooding closed roads and inundated large areas near the river. A levee break caused extensive flooding of homes in Sumava Resorts.
June 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Thayer	$60,000	A tornado started near Colfax St. and tracked through the south side of Shelby, through DeMotte, and ended slightly east of N. 600W Rd. A large barn was completely destroyed, and damage was done to houses in both Shelby and DeMotte. In addition, numerous hardwood trees were snapped and uprooted. Maximum winds were estimated to 110 mph.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Thayer	$3,000	Trees and power lines blown down blocking roadways.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Thayer	-	A trained spotter reported numerous trees uprooted and branches along IN-55 north of IN-10 in Roselawn.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Thayer	-	A trained spotter reported a 12 inch diameter tree downed near CR 400 E and CR 1200 N in Fowler.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Thayer	-	Multiple roads were closed near the Kankakee River due to renewed rises and the river coming out of its banks.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Thayer	-	A large tree was blown down in far northeast Newton County.
June 2008	Hail	Thayer	-	Penny size hail was reported near mile marker 233 on Interstate 65.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Roselawn	2.4 miles	11
Sumava Resorts	5.6 miles	13
Pembroke	5.9 miles	10
Lake Village	6.6 miles	13
Conrad	7.5 miles	11
Enos	12.6 miles	11
Mount Ayr	15.4 miles	9
Morocco	16.9 miles	8

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 Thayer	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7711534	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 444661. 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.