Claypool

History

Claypool was platted in 1873. The post office at Claypool has been in operation since 1841. Claypool was previously an important rail transportation hub because it was located at the junction of the Big Four and the Nickel Plate railroad lines. Claypool is the hometown of two of Indiana's basketball greats, Judi Warren, who became the first Indiana Miss Basketball in 1976, and Kevin Ault, Indiana Mr. Basketball of 1996. Both played for Warsaw Community High School. Judi Warren was inducted into the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002. The town was also notable for the controversial local house church established for a time in the 1970s by Hobart Freeman. Claypool was featured in an article in Time magazine in its September 8, 1980, issue. In 2006 Claypool was selected by Louis Dreyfus Agriculture Industries, a Dutch Corporation, as the location for a new biodiesel manufacturing plant, which is now the largest integrated soybean processing and biodiesel plant in the United States

Geography

According to the 2010 census, Claypool has a total area of , of which (or 96%) is land and (or 4%) is water.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  979
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  842
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  706
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  683
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  681
• Canada Goose (canadensis Group)

  Branta canadensis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  673
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  653
• Red-winged Blackbird

  Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  646

Largest nearby schools

• Warsaw Community High School
  High · Warsaw · 2,104 students · 14.5:1 ratio
• Tippecanoe Valley High School
  High · Akron · 545 students · 16:1 ratio
• Edgewood Middle School
  Middle · Warsaw · 537 students · 14.1:1 ratio
• Washington Elementary School
  Elementary · Warsaw · 504 students · 17.4:1 ratio
• Eisenhower Elementary School
  Elementary · Warsaw · 478 students · 17.7:1 ratio
• Lakeview Middle School
  Middle · Warsaw · 477 students · 12.9:1 ratio
• Lincoln Elementary School
  Elementary · Warsaw · 457 students · 14.7:1 ratio
• Harrison Elementary School
  Elementary · Warsaw · 446 students · 17.2:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.9 — 2024-12-29
  1 km SSE of Hicksville, Ohio
• M 2.6 — 2015-06-12
  6 km NW of Convoy, Ohio
• M 3 — 2012-01-26
  5 km NE of Topeka, Indiana
• M 3.8 — 2010-12-30
  6 km SE of Greentown, Indiana