BlockTippecanoe, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Tippecanoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46570. It stands on Outlet Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mentone quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.
On record in Tippecanoe
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
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 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 Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Mentone quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Tippecanoe township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Deaths By Accident And Otherwise
This locality has been remarkably free from murders, suicides and aecidental deaths, so far as can be ascertained. James Welch, above noted, seems to have been the first one in this region who "shuffled off this mortal coil" of his own volition. No cause is known for his untimely taking off.
In the county-history sources
4,079 words on this townshipMcDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Tippecanoe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first settlers of Tippecanoe Township were A. H. Buckman and family, and a man by the name of James Welch, and wife, who settled there in 1835. Welch was of the opinion that the future had no good in store for him, and committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, and was buried in what is now the farm of Zachariah Senior, and was the first white person buried in the township. James Turner settled on the farm he now oceupies, the following summer, and is now the oldest settler in the township. The first school was taught in the summer of 1842, at what is now Schoolhouse No. 3, by Esther Birney, who taught there three successive terms. Among prominent early settlers were Thomas H. McKey, Samuel R. Koons, William Sprout. Thomas Ivens, Samuel Rockhill and Levi Holloway, none of whom remain except the latter. 'The Pottawatomie Chief, Benack, and many of his tribe, lived at this time on the banks of the Tippecanoe River, a short distance above Tippecanoe Town,
Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.
This locality has been remarkably free from murders, suicides and aecidental deaths, so far as can be ascertained. James Welch, above noted, seems to have been the first one in this region who "shuffled off this mortal coil" of his own volition. No cause is known for his untimely taking off.
Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.
Henry C. Montgomery, on the 7th of June, 1$73, while engaged in fishing in the river some distance above the dam, in order to loosen his hook which had got fastened, dove into the water to get at it, but never rose. When found, he was laying face downward on the bottom.
Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.
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 Tippecanoe Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Storms near this place
15 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tippecanoe in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 tornado, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | 1 hurt | A trailer was blown over, one person was injured. |
| January 2008 | Flood | Tippecanoe | $150,000 | Several county and some city roads experienced high water on them for a few days as low areas, ditches and creeks exceeded capacity from one to three inches of rain. Some residences were affected in and around Plymouth as a result of flood waters from the rising Yellow River. The town of Tippecanoe also had some flooding issues with the Tippecanoe River going over its banks. Schools were closed on parts of the area during the even. No exact damage were available, but is estimated at $150,000 for road repairs and structure damage. |
| July 2024 | Tornado (EF0) | Tippecanoe | $20,000 | A survey of damage confirmed a brief tornado, embedded with a larger area of damaging winds. The tornado touched down southwest of the intersection of 19th Rd and Birch Rd, then moved northeast. Damage was confined to several trees being snapped or uprooted in the area. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | $10,000 | Downed powerlines between Tippecanoe and Mentone. |
| October 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Tippecanoe | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | - | A CoCoRaHS observer reports several 6 inch diameter limbs were downed and that corn was flattened. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | - | Trees down. |
| June 2015 | Flood | Tippecanoe | - | Numerous reports of high water and general flooding throughout Plymouth, with several inches of standing water. Other reports of high water were received throughout the county, especially in the Tippecanoe area. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | - | Emergency management officials reported trees down. |
| January 2013 | Hail | Tippecanoe | - | A trained spotter reported hail up to the size of nickels covering the ground. Visibility was reduced to one eighth of a mile during the hail fall. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | - | A trained spotter observed multiple small tree limbs down with estimated wind gusts to 60 mph. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | - | Law enforcement reported large trees down in Tippecanoe. |
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tippecanoe | - | no account filed |
| June 2011 | Hail | Tippecanoe | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Hail | Tippecanoe | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Old Tip Town | 1.0 miles | 11 | |
| Summit Chapel | 3.0 miles | 11 | |
| Walnut | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Argos | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Bourbon | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Inwood | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Rutland | 13.1 miles | 10 | |
| Plymouth | 13.9 miles | 11 |
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 Tippecanoe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7808866 | 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 449738. 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.