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Windsor, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stoney Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47368. It stands on Stoney Creek. The Survey maps it on the Farmland quadrangle. It stands 1,020 feet above sea level.

Windsor within Randolph County

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

857 words on this township

Past and Present of Randolph County, Indiana : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Stoney Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Stoney Creek Township - 857 words.

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWindsor$10,000A home was damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindWindsor-An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in this location.
May 2017HailWindsor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Parker City2.4 miles11
Georgetown4.6 miles11
Pinch4.8 miles11
Farmland5.1 miles11
Maxville5.8 miles13
Scott Corner6.3 miles11
Unionport6.6 miles12
Buena Vista7.8 miles12

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 WindsorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22059238The 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 446175. 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.