BlockWilkinson, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46186. It stands on Shirley Drain. The Survey maps it on the Shirley quadrangle. 414 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWilkinson fell from 449 to 414 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 | 449 | |
| 2020 | 414 | -35 (-8%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Shirley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Brown township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Storm
On May 12, 1886, Wilkinson was partially destroyed by a cyclone, in which Glenn Smith, little son of John Smith, also Samuel White, who resided just east of the town, were killed, and Mr. White's daughter was seriouslv injured. Wilkinson was also visited by the storm of June 25, 1902, in which one glass factory was blown down and several men seriously injured, two of them dying from the effects of their injuries.
In the county-history sources
34,023 words on this townshipHistory of Hancock County, Indiana, from Its Earliest Settlement by the "pale Face," in 1818, Down to 1882, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Brown Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first business done in the place was in 1874, by A. B. Thomas, who established a store and accepted the appointment of postmaster for Willow Branch, when the office was removed from across the line in Green, where it had been kept for a number of years by Jonathan Smith, a farmer and merchant.
Passage source: History of Hancock County, Indiana, from Its Earliest Settlement by the "pale Face," in 1818, Down to 1882, published 1882.
The Warrington Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons. No. 531, was chartered Ma}- 22, 1877, with the following officers : William Marsh, W. M. ; J. A. Hamilton, S. W. : A. C. Walton, J. W. The charter members were, in addition to the above officers, Wm. G. Caldwell, F. M. Graham, John Vandyke, Wm. M. Haves, H. B. Wilson, and Robert Blakely. '
Passage source: History of Hancock County, Indiana, from Its Earliest Settlement by the "pale Face," in 1818, Down to 1882, published 1882.
Among the first members of the original lodge were the following: W. P. White, J. K. King, Lysander Sparks, John Vandyke, James McCray, Moses Cottrell. J. A. McDaniel, Wm. Marsh, W. G. Caldwell, Thomas Walker, F. L. Seward, Andrew Vandyke, Ananias Conklin, and James Daughert}'.
Passage source: History of Hancock County, Indiana, from Its Earliest Settlement by the "pale Face," in 1818, Down to 1882, published 1882.
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 Brown Township - it names this place 30 more 30 times.
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilkinson in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilkinson | $2,000 | A tree of unknown size was downed by thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilkinson | $1,000 | Damaging thunderstorm winds caused trees to be uprooted and caused down power lines in northeast portions of Hancock County. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilkinson | $500 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shirley | 1.7 miles | 8 | |
| Warrington | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Nashville | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Willow Branch | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Milners Corner | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Charlottesville | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Cleveland | 6.9 miles | 8 |
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 Wilkinson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1992335 | 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 446041. 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.