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Vevay, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47043. The Survey maps it on the Vevay South quadrangle. 1,741 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

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Vevay within Switzerland County

On record in Vevay

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Vevay grew from 1,683 to 1,741 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
20101,683
20201,741+58 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Vevay in 2004, burning about 2 acres 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/undetermined1

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
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Vevay: 1 producer. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Switzerland Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Switzerland County

Storms near this place

37 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vevay in 37 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 7 flash flood. 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
March 1997Thunderstorm WindVevay$50,000no account filed
April 2005HailVevay$20,000no account filed
April 2017Flash FloodVevay$10,000A road was closed and water was reported in the lower levels of homes in Vevay.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindVevay$8,000Several trees were downed on the east side of Vevay, primarily along Ohio Street and East Seminary Street.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000Trees and power lines were downed.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000Trees down around Vevay and near Markland Dam.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000no account filed
January 1997Thunderstorm WindVevay$5,000no account filed
April 1996Flash FloodVevay$5,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindVevay$4,000Several trees were reported down across the county due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000A few trees were knocked down along State Route 56 outside of Vevay.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000Trees were knocked down.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000Two trees fell in town.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000Trees downed.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindVevay$3,000no account filed
May 2011Thunderstorm WindVevay$2,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
May 2010Flash FloodVevay$2,000High water was reported over roads countywide due to heavy rainfall.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindVevay$2,000Trees were downed throughout town.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000A few large branches were downed onto power lines.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000One large tree was downed on Market Street and a few other tree limbs were downed in the town of Vevay due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindVevay$1,000Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
February 2018Flash FloodVevay-Multiple roads were closed throughout the county due to high water.
June 2009HailVevay-Three quarters of an inch to one inch hail was reported.
March 2006Flash FloodVevay-State Route 56 was flooded in town.
July 2003Flash FloodVevay-High water and debris closed State Route 56.
May 2002Flash FloodVevay-Cole Road was closed by high water.
March 2024HailVevay-no account filed
March 2023HailVevay-no account filed
April 2020HailVevay-no account filed
April 2020HailVevay-no account filed
April 2020HailVevay-no account filed
March 2012HailVevay-no account filed
March 2012HailVevay-no account filed
April 2006HailVevay-no account filed
May 2004HailVevay-no account filed
February 2002HailVevay-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Switzerland 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
Long Run2.7 miles12
Mount Sterling3.3 miles12
Markland4.9 miles11
Braytown5.0 miles12
Jacksonville5.7 miles12
Five Points5.7 miles12
Center Square6.4 miles12
Moorefield6.8 miles10

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 VevayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1019255The 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 445270. 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.