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Whitestown, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Worth Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46075. The Survey maps it on the Zionsville quadrangle. 10,178 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Whitestown within Boone County

Population over time

2 figures

Whitestown grew from 2,867 to 10,178 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
20102,867
202010,178+7,311 (+255%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

7,549 words on this township

Early Life and Times in Boone County Indiana, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on Worth Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The above township contains twenty-one sections. It was created in 1851, out of territory taken from adjoining townships. There are no water courses here. The extreme headwaters of Fishback have their source in the south part of Worth. The Indianapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad passes through from the southeast to th> northwest, dividing the townships into equal parts. Whitestown, on the railroad and near the center, is the voting place and the headquarters for the business transactions of the township. Holmes Station, founded by John Holmes, was in earlier days quite a business place. Mr. Holmes built a warehouse about the year 1860. At one time a large amount of grain was taken in here, but. of late years the business has been discontinued. A separate account of Whitestown will be found under the head of "Sketch of Whitestown." Worth is without doubt the levelest township in the county and contains as fine land as can be found in Indiana. The farmers have tested to perfection the benefit of drainage, thousands upon thousands of dollars having been expended. Could the tile that is buried under the ground be exposed on the surface the ground would be red.

Passage source: Early Life and Times in Boone County Indiana, published 1861.

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 Worth Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Whitestown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Routh Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitestown in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2016Tornado (EF1)Whitestown$35,000This EF-1 tornado, with winds estimated at 100 mph, moved from 2.5 miles ESE of Whitestown to 2.6 miles ESE of Whitestown. The tornado demolished a small barn and did some minor damage to a home.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWhitestown$25,000Trees were snapped, large limbs and fences were downed, roof shingles were blown off, air conditioning units were moved and twisted, and a patio set was moved over a city block due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Event occurred at Green Willow Road and Limelight Lane.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWhitestown$25,000no account filed
May 2013Thunderstorm WindWhitestown$5,000Trees were reported down in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWhitestown$2,000Tree downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts at the 4600 block of South 700 East. Another tree was downed nearby.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindWhitestown$1,500Power lines were reported down in Whitestown.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWhitestown$1,000Shingles were ripped off of roofs and large trash cans were blown away due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindWhitestown$1,000A large tree was downed along County Road 300 South due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
March 2020HailWhitestown-Report was relayed through broadcast media.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWhitestown-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was observed in this location. A gust of 53 mph was measured in this location as well.
July 2015HailWhitestown-Penny size hail fell for five minutes accompanied by lightning strikes every one to two seconds.
March 2012Funnel CloudWhitestown-A lowering of the thunderstorm cloud base was reported with rotation in this location.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWhitestown-A thunderstorm wind gust, estimated at 70 mph, was reported in Whitestown.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWhitestown-Trees and large limbs were knocked down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindWhitestown-Damaging winds were reported in Whitestown.
March 2024HailWhitestown-no account filed
March 2017HailWhitestown-no account filed
May 2015HailWhitestown-no account filed
May 2011HailWhitestown-no account filed
February 2006Thunderstorm WindWhitestown-no account filed
June 2006HailWhitestown-no account filed
September 2006HailWhitestown-no account filed
December 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitestown-no account filed
April 1997Thunderstorm WindWhitestown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Allens Acres2.3 miles18
Dale3.2 miles11
Stonegate3.4 miles18
Gadsden3.5 miles11
Eaglewood Estates3.6 miles18
Russell Lake4.1 miles18
Northfield4.2 miles11
Rosston4.6 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 WhitestownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2223910The 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 445978. 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.