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Troy, Indiana

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47588. It stands on Anderson River. The Survey maps it on the Tell City quadrangle. 347 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Troy within Perry County

On record in Troy

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

Troy fell from 385 to 347 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
2010385
2020347-38 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

Fires near this place

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 1999 and 2014, burning about 79 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 July 2001Smokingunder an acreHoosier National ForestTROY
7 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresHoosier National ForestSCHOOL
8 May 2009Naturalunder an acreHoosier National ForestEVENING FIRE
14 March 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestSTRAWBERRY
11 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreHoosier National ForestBRUSHY FORK
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Debris and open burning2.6 acresHoosier National ForestPONDEROSA FIRE
14 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Troy: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
HawesvilleAluminum, Contained or MetalProducer
Tell City DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 2 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 2013Tornado (EF1)Troy$200,000A circulation embedded within a strong line of storms spawned an EF-1 tornado that touched down to the northwest of Tell City, in Perry County, Indiana. It moved southeast for just over 5 miles across Tell City, lifting just south of the intersection of State Highway 237 and Scotch Pine Road. Several large trees were felled along the entire tornado's path, and several homes in Tell City received damage to their roofs. Numerous outbuildings were destroyed. A carnival site at the intersection of 10th and Watt Streets was damaged. A few rides were displaced and a semi-trailer was overturned. Many tree branches were snapped southeast of Tell City before the tornado lifted.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTroy$4,000Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped over a broad area just north of the Ohio River from west to east of Troy. Roof damage occurred to a 2-story building in Troy.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindTroy-A tree was reported down on State Road 66.
March 2018FloodTroy-The Ohio River at Tell City continued to be above flood stage. The river crested in late February but didn't drop below flood stage until March 7.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindTroy-Multiple trees were reported down between Tell City and Troy.
June 2015Tornado (EF0)Troy-A NWS storm survey team located a small tornado roughly 1 mile east-northeast of Troy. The damage was confined to an area approximately 1/3 of a mile long and 50 yards wide. There was substantial soft and hardwood tree damage east of the industrial park, in a heavily forested area.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTroy-A county official reported a tree down on Atlanta Road north of Tell City.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindTroy-Trees were reported down.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindTroy-Local TV meteorologists relayed a report of trees down in Troy, IN.
April 2008FloodTroy-The Ohio River at Tell City crested at 39.5 feet around 6 AM EST on April 8. Flood stage at Tell City is 38 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level, with Indiana Highway 66 flooded between Rome and Derby.
March 2008FloodTroy-The Ohio River at Tell City crested at 44.5 feet around 600 AM EST on March 22. Flood stage at Tell City is 38 feet. The city flood wall is closed at 40 feet, and water reaches the base of the flood wall. Bottom land on both sides of the river floods.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Tell City3.4 miles22
Fenn Haven4.9 miles22
Cannelton6.4 miles17
Lilly Dale7.8 miles14
Gatchel8.6 miles14
Ranger9.1 miles14
Dodd9.6 miles17
Bristow10.8 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 TroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2915828The 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 444924. 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.