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Woodburn, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Maumee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46797. The Survey maps it on the Woodburn North quadrangle. 1,551 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 751 feet above sea level.

Woodburn within Allen County

Population over time

2 figures

Woodburn grew from 1,520 to 1,551 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
20101,520
20201,551+31 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Maumee township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880 - Maumee Township

The Dawn Of Peace

the purpose of intercepting the retreat of the enemy. Succeeding in capturing a few British soldiers, who had been left in the general retreat, the Indians brought them to the camp, without doing them anj' injury; and, conscious that the}' had done their dut}', they were frequently seen telling the story to their brother warriors, and laughing at the terror which had been manifested b}- the soldiers, who, no doubt, expected to be massacred or carried off and destro3'ed by torture.

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In the county-history sources

40,892 words on this township

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Maumee Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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 Maumee Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woodburn: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Edgerton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Woodburn Stone Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodburn in 14 storm reports between 1993 and 2012: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 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
August 1993Thunderstorm WindWoodburn$50,000A barn was destroyed by downburst winds. Damage was estimated at $40,000. A horse received minor injuries.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWoodburn$10,000Several trees and powerlines were blown down.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindWoodburn$5,000A grain hopper wagon with auger was blown across the road and struck a building. Exterior damage to the building was estimated at $2,000.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindWoodburn-An NWS employee reported numerous trees and tree limbs broken at a residence on the 23000 block of Kammeyer Road. One tree fell onto the porch of the residence, destroying the porch. Siding damage was also observed.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindWoodburn-A trained spotter in Woodburn measured a 75 mph wind gust.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindWoodburn-Trained spotter reported trees down south of Woodburn.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWoodburn-A trained spotter reported a wind gust to 60 MPH north of Woodburn.
November 2001Thunderstorm WindWoodburn-A trained spotter reported a wind gust estimated around 60 mph near Woodburn.
September 2006HailWoodburn-no account filed
June 2001HailWoodburn-no account filed
June 2001HailWoodburn-no account filed
August 2001HailWoodburn-no account filed
August 2001HailWoodburn-no account filed
August 2001HailWoodburn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Bluecast2.2 miles11
Edgerton4.2 miles11
Five Points4.6 miles11
Milan Center5.1 miles11
Harlan6.0 miles11
Cuba6.1 miles11
Zulu6.4 miles11
Tillman7.3 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 WoodburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2700505The 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 446280. 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.