BlockWalton, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tipton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46994. The Survey maps it on the Onward quadrangle. 962 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 771 feet above sea level.
On record in Walton
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
Pipe Creek Falls Resortlisted 1995
Population over time
2 figuresWalton fell from 1,049 to 962 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 | 1,049 | |
| 2020 | 962 | -87 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1951 USGS Onward quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Onward quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,758 words on this townshipHistory of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Tipton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first church was a hewed log structure built by the United Brethren, in 1852, on the Henry Snell farm. The .next house of worship was by the same denomination, soon after, on the Tucker farm, and known as the "Seven-Mile Church." The next church was in Walton, by the Lutherans; the next was by the Methodists, in 1870, and another by the Universalists, a little later. In 1872, the Christians, or Disciples, built, near Lewisburg, a neat, substantial brick church.
Passage source: History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878.
In 1850, another saw-mill was built on the Costenborder farm, by George Sharts. The year following, 1851, a third saw-mill was built by Elihu Plummer. The first grist-mill was built by Thomas K. Hansberry. The next was by John Costenborder. In 1872, a steam grist-mill was started in Walton by D. P. Cromer. At present there are in the township seven saw, and three grist-mills.
Passage source: History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
18 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walton in 18 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | $75,000 | A NWS survey of the area confirmed intense straight line winds of up to 80 mph caused damage to trees, power lines and a few structures prior to and south of the F2 tornado track across Cass county. A large tree fell onto a carport north of Walton, destroying it, as well as 3 vehicles parked under it. The swath of damage from the straight line winds, associated with the rear flank downdraft of the mesocyclone reached nearly a mile wide as it crossed into Miami county. At 817 pm EST a 70 mph wind gust was recorded 7 miles south of Logansport. No injuries were reported. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | $5,000 | Multiple trees down in and around Walton. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | $2,000 | Received photos of a few snapped trees and large branches down on E SR 218 east of Walton. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | $1,000 | Tree down on Grace street between Depot and Main st. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | $1,000 | Tree down at Grace Street between Depot and Main street. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | $1,000 | A tree is down on power lines. Multiple large tree branches are down in the area. |
| July 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Walton | - | The majority of the damage was to beans and corn extending from west of S CR 900 E to north of SR 218 to near the intersection of E CR 700 S and S CR 500 W. A small area of tree damage was found at a property on S CR 900 E in the path of the crop damage. The Grissom ARB recorded a 74 mph wind gust immediately after the dissipation of the tornado from RFD winds. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | Emergency management officials reported widespread tree and power line damage from Walton to Onward. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | A few trees and tree limbs were blown down. |
| October 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | A local newspaper reported tree limbs being blown onto power lines in the Walton and Young America area. |
| September 2007 | Flash Flood | Walton | - | State route 218 was impassable and closed in southern Cass county due to flowing water on the road. A spotter in the area reported 4 inches of rain falling in one hour just southwest of Walton. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | Numerous large trees down in the Galveson area. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | Tree down. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walton | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Walton | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Hail | Walton | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Walton | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Hail | Walton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onward | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Lincoln | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Deacon | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Anoka | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Poundstone Corner | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Lewisburg | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Galveston | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Miami Bend | 6.9 miles | 10 |
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 Walton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2551289 | 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 445453. 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.