Wallace, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47949. It stands on Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle. 79 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Wallace within Fountain County

On record in Wallace

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

Wallace Covered Bridgelisted 2021

Population over time

2 figures

Wallace fell from 105 to 79 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	105
2020	79	-26 (-25%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1948 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

8,170 words on this township

History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The post-office was established during the administration of Gov. "Wallace, and was named for him by Judge Mitchell C. Black and Squire John Bowman. The latter was the first postmaster. The post route was to Greencastle, and Judge Black was the first mailcarrier.

Passage source: History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881.

Wallace Lodge, No. 495, A.F. and A.M., was organized under dispensation, September 6, 1S73, with the following charter members, the eight first of whom were the original officers of the lodge: Jacob Ewbank, W.M. ; Thomas J. Ratclifi', S.W. ; John B. Poole, J.W. ; John Kewkirk, treasurer; H. W. Darnell, secretary; William Ratclifi", S.D.; David A. Myers, J.D. ; John McLain, tiler; J. N. Philpot, John Bowman, John II. Day, Valentine Sowers, Perry Parker, Elijah Low, and Joseph Banta. The present officers are J. N. Talbot, W.M. ; Jacob S. Livingston, S.W. ; Jacob Ewbank, J.D. ; H. L. Roach, treasurer ; 11. J. Holman, secretary ; J.G. Mofiett, S.D. ; John Kewkirk, J.D. ; n. P. McCrary, tiler. The charter of this lodge bears date May 26, 1875. The present membership is twenty-nine. A good interest is taken in the meetings, which are held on the Friday night of each month on or before the full moon.

Passage source: History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, published 1881.

Wallace Lodge, No. 454, I.O.O.F., was instituted by John T. Sandors, special deputy, June 23. 1874, with the following charter members : GilesW. Hutts, Daniel W. Cunningham, James A. Sanders, George V. Thomas,William A. Summers, Thomas Allen, W. II. Spinning and S. D. Willis. The first elective officers wereW. H. Spinning, N.G. ; George V. Thomas, V.G.; James A.Sanders, secretary, and GilesW. Hutts, treasurer. The present elective officers are James A. Sanders, N.G. ; George V. Thomas, V.G. ; W. H. Spinning, secretary and district deputy, and John Fisher, treasurer. The membership of the lodge at one time reached twenty-five, but through disagreement, unfortunatelv, it has fallen off to nine. Regular meetings are held on Saturday nights.

Passage source: History of Fountain County : Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley, Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts, 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 Jackson Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Wallace	-	Trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Fountain 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
Wooley Corner	1.9 miles	9
Centennial	5.3 miles	9
Yeddo	6.2 miles	9
Steam Corner	6.4 miles	9
Kingman	7.0 miles	13
Harveysburg	7.8 miles	13
Lake Holiday Hideaway	8.6 miles	13
Hillsboro	8.7 miles	9

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 Wallace	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1573437	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 445387. 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.