Jonesboro

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Jonesboro

Total population

1,578

Elevation260 m

Land area2.31 km²

Weather70°F · Sunny

Coordinates40.48°, -85.63°

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Jonesboro is a city in Grant County, Indiana, United States, located along the Mississinewa River opposite Gas City. The population was 1,516 at the 2020 census. According to the 2010 census, Jonesboro had the third smallest population of a city in Indiana.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Jonesboro, IN from NOAA NWS API.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Notable people from here

James Dean

American actor (1931–1955)

Zach Randolph

American basketball player (born 1981)

Thaddeus Shideler

American hurdler

Jim Davis

American cartoonist

Mary Jane Ward

American writer (1905-1981)

Case Broderick

American politician (1839-1920)

Willis Van Devanter

Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1859-1941)

Olive Rush

American artist (1873-1966)

Thomas Francis, Jr.

American physician, virologist, and epidemiologist (1900-1969)

W

William N. Oatis

American correspondent detained 1951-1953 by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia

A. J. Edds

American football player

Donald Fehr

American sports labor leader

Connie Rea

American professional basketball player (1931–2020)

John Sutter

American basketball player

Monte Towe

American basketball player and coach

Stretch Murphy

American basketball player (1907–1992)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Jonesboro

Flood insurance study

1983

Indiana

Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection · 1928

Jonesboro Methodist Church study

William Kaiser · 1968

Local history and genealogical abstracts from Jonesboro and Gas City, Indiana newspapers, 1889-1920

Ralph D. Kirkpatrick · 1996

Heritage Books archives

Ralph D. Kirkpatrick · 1999

Johnson's business and professional directory of Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Terre Haute, Anderson, Marion, Lafayette, Kokomo, Logansport, South Bend, Evansville, Vincennes, Washington, Petersburg, Mt. Vernon, Princeton, Elkhart, Elwood, Alexandria, Decatur, Bluffton, Gas City, Jonesboro, Goshen, Warsaw, Huntington, East Chicago, Laporte, Auburn, Michigan City, Wabash, Mishawaka, Whiting, Peru, Hammond, Columbia City, Noblesville, Brazil, Greenfield, Shelbyville, Hartford City, etc., etc., etc

1902

Highway accident report

United States. National Transportation Safety Board. · 1977

Stanley M. Harmon Research Compendium of the Literary History Series

Floyd Thomas Pratt F.H.C., M.A.G.I. · 2014

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