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Westport, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sandcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47283. The Survey maps it on the Westport quadrangle. 1,393 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Westport within Decatur County

On record in Westport

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

Population over time

2 figures

Westport grew from 1,379 to 1,393 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
20101,379
20201,393+14 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

In the county-history sources

2,767 words on this township

History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Sandcreek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Samuel Stevens built a brick house in 1834 and about the same time Simeon Sharp opened a tavern where Westport now stands. Elijah Davis and John Robbins both started water-mills and some time after William Robbins built a horse-mill, so that the early settlers were not altogether dependent upon the waters of Sand creek and Millstone creek for their bread. The first church in the township was organized by Samuel Strickland, of the denomination then styled "Campbellites."

Passage source: History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915.

Westport is noted for its excellent stone cpiarries in close pro.ximity to the town. .The product of these quarries is a high-grade building stone, which will bear favorable comparison with that of any other section of the state. It is also used quite extensively for curb and gutter, and many car loads of crushed stone are shipped from the quarries annually. At present it is under the management of a Cincinnati corporation and bears the name of the Westport Stone Company. John Ballman, of Cincinnati, is the present superintendent and he is ablv assisted bv J. L. Tackson, of Westport. (10)

Passage source: History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915.

The output varies from three to five carloads per day and in times of rush orders for crushed stone as much as sixty to seventy carloads extra are put out per month. This has been one of the greatest factors in making Westport among the most progressive business towns of the county.

Passage source: History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915.

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 Sandcreek Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.

Storms near this place

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westport in 24 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWestport$50,000Half mile wide swath of trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. Estimated 200-250 total trees.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindWestport$50,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWestport$36,000Power lines and trees were reported down in Westport due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. The town was without power and some of the downed trees damaged a few homes. This report came in via WebEOC.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindWestport$20,000no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindWestport$20,000no account filed
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWestport$15,000Many trees of unknown size and power lines downed by thunderstorm wind gusts across the immediate area.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindWestport$15,000House with half of the roof torn off as well as barn damage nearby due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindWestport$10,000Several trees and power lines were downed, and structural damage occurred.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindWestport$7,000Trees were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindWestport$6,000Multiple trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2018FloodWestport$5,000Iron Mine Road or County Road 600 West was closed between County Roads 950 South and 1100 South due to flood damage from heavy rainfall.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindWestport$5,000Trees, tree limbs, and utility lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindWestport$2,000A tree was downed by thunderstorm wind gusts and was blocking State Road 3. Heavy rains in the hours preceding the wind allowed the tree to be uprooted rather easily.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWestport$2,000A couple trees were downed in southwest Decatur County due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindWestport$1,500An eight inch diameter tree limb from a live, maple tree was reported down on a house due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. No additional information about damage to the house was received.
August 2009FloodWestport$500The Decatur County EMA reported water over roadways located across the central and southern portion of the county. Rainfall rates of over two inches per hour were also observed.
June 2010Heavy RainWestport-Rainfall of 1.5 inches was measured in Westport.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindWestport-A large tree was downed.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWestport-Trees and power lines were blown down. One tree, which was 93 feet tall and over 100 years old, came within inches of crushing a home when it was uprooted by the storm.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindWestport-Several 14-inch diameter trees were uprooted by thunderstorm winds.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindWestport-Trees and power lines were downed.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindWestport-no account filed
April 1996Tornado (F0)Westport-no account filed
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWestport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Mapleton Corner1.8 miles11
Neff Corner2.3 miles11
Harper2.3 miles11
Sardinia3.4 miles11
Letts Corner4.1 miles11
Letts4.1 miles11
Pinhook4.2 miles11
Gaynorsville5.4 miles11

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 WestportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2318270The 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 445857. 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.