West Baden Springs, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1993. It stands in French Lick Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47469. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the French Lick quadrangle. 541 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 479 feet above sea level.
On record in West Baden Springs
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 6 records
Dixie Garagelisted 2001
First Baptist Churchlisted 1994
Homestead Hotellisted 1998
Oxford Hotellisted 2001
West Baden National Banklisted 1993- The Maples Farmlisted 2026
Population over time
2 figuresWest Baden Springs fell from 574 to 541 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 | 574 | |
| 2020 | 541 | -33 (-6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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 French Lick quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS French Lick quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS French Lick quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
22 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of West Baden Springs between 1995 and 2019, burning about 106 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | 56 S CURVE |
| 9 April 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Hoosier National Forest | ROLAND FIRE |
| 27 April 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | CASINO |
| 2 April 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | ROLAND POWER FIRE |
| 12 April 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 acres | Hoosier National Forest | STEVENS SAWMILL |
| 28 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Hoosier National Forest | GOLF BALL |
| 24 March 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | WEST BADEN RESTART |
| 24 March 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Hoosier National Forest | SPRINGS VALLEY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of West Baden Springs: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cave Quarries, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect | 0.9 miles | 15 | |
| French Lick | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| Abydel | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Roland | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Turleys | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Orangeville | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Norton | 6.2 miles | 13 | |
| Braxtons Siding | 6.5 miles | 14 |
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 West Baden Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2799225 | 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 451617. 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.







