BlockWingate, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Coal Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47994. The Survey maps it on the Wingate quadrangle. 237 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresWingate fell from 263 to 237 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 | 263 | |
| 2020 | 237 | -26 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Wingate quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wingate in 2005, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 July 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wingate in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF2) | Wingate | $1,000 | At 1432EST, this EF-2 tornado touched down in NE Veedersburg where there was roof damage to a large manufacturing plant. The most extensive damage with this EF-2 tornado occurred in the town of Mellott. One mobile home was completely destroyed, with four additional mobile homes that were either rolled off their foundation or damaged. An old retail shop with a cinder block base had the exterior wall collapse. A residence a little over two miles east of Newtown, had a garage and barn destroyed, as well as the entire roof removed from the home. From 1442EST to 1443EST, the tornado crossed through the far northwest corner of Montgomery County not causing much damage. Then the tornado moved into southwest Tippecanoe County causing damage to a shed and a home. At 1445EST, the tornado lifted 4 miles north-northeast of Wingate. |
| April 2020 | Hail | Wingate | - | Relayed via Facebook. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wingate | - | An estimated 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was reported in this location. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Wingate | - | no account filed |
| August 2012 | Hail | Wingate | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wingate | - | no account filed |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wingate | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elmdale | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| New Richmond | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Waynetown | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Wesley | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Linden | 9.0 miles | 9 | |
| Cherry Grove | 9.3 miles | 9 | |
| Manchester | 10.3 miles | 11 | |
| Taylor Corner | 10.6 miles | 9 |
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 Wingate | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2802096 | 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 446183. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.