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Williams Creek, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46240. It stands on Meridian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carmel quadrangle. 430 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Williams Creek within Marion County

On record in Williams Creek

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Williams Creek grew from 407 to 430 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
2010407
2020430+23 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

15,135 words on this township

History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 15,135 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Williams Creek: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indianapolis 521 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Carmel 512 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Eighty-Sixth Street SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Standard Materials Corp S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
U. S. Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
U. S. Allied Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

9 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams Creek in 9 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindWilliams Creek$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts downed powerlines.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWilliams Creek$2,000Traffic signal was blown down into the intersection at West 86th Street and Harcourt Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindWilliams Creek$1,000An 8 to 10 inch tree limb was downed on Ditch Road near 86th Street due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. One lane of traffic was blocked. Another tree limb was down at Springmill Road and 91st Street.
July 2017FloodWilliams Creek$250Street and yard flooding of unknown depth occurred due to heavy rainfall in the area.
August 2017HailWilliams Creek-Hail started as pea to nickel size then diminished to pea size over a five to ten minute period. The hail was accompanied by very heavy rain.
April 2020HailWilliams Creek-no account filed
April 2020HailWilliams Creek-no account filed
April 2015HailWilliams Creek-no account filed
August 2014HailWilliams Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Meridian Hills0.8 miles17
Nora1.2 miles17
Ravenswood1.3 miles17
Spring Mill Woods1.3 miles17
Hoover Crest1.5 miles17
Greenbriar1.6 miles17
Sherwood Forest1.7 miles17
College Crest1.7 miles17

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 Williams CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2660673The 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 446069. 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.