West Lafayette, Indiana

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 11 records

• John E. and Catherine E. Christian HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1992
• Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity Houselisted 2002
• Jesse Andrew Houselisted 1983
• Chauncey-Stadium Avenues Historic Districtlisted 2002
• Curtis-Grace Houselisted 2012
• Happy Hollow Heights Historic Districtlisted 2015
• Hills and Dales Historic Districtlisted 2002
• Morton Schoollisted 1999
• James Pierce Jr. Houselisted 1982
• Varsity, Thelisted 2001
• Levi and Lucy Morehouse Farmlisted 2012

West Lafayette grew from 29,596 to 44,595 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.

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.

• 1941 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000
• 1942 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Lafayette West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1998 USGS Lafayette West quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of West Lafayette: 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Lafayette in 39 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 14 thunderstorm wind, 12 hail, 9 flood, 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 445775. 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.