BlockVallonia, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Driftwood Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47281. The Survey maps it on the Vallonia quadrangle. 379 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.
On record in Vallonia
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
- Joseph Jackson Hotellisted 2005
Population over time
2 figuresVallonia grew from 336 to 379 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 | 336 | |
| 2020 | 379 | +43 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Vallonia quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Vallonia: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | ||
| Medora Brick Co. Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| County Materials Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kenneth Bahan Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vallonia in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vallonia | $3,000 | Tree fell on a car. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vallonia | $1,000 | A 12 to 14 inch diameter tree was uprooted on Lake Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vallonia | $250 | Six to eight inch diameter tree limbs were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2010 | Hail | Vallonia | - | Hail began near the size of dimes and grew to quarter size. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Vallonia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ewing | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Brownstown | 3.7 miles | 13 | |
| Medora | 4.1 miles | 13 | |
| Wegan | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Pleasantville | 5.8 miles | 13 | |
| Petersburg (historical) | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Weddleville | 6.5 miles | 13 | |
| Shields | 6.9 miles | 13 |
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 Vallonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7912450 | 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 445200. 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.
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.