Official Name: | Cyclone |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana Clinton County |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Clinton |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Jackson |
Coordinates: | 40.2283°N -86.4325°W |
Elevation Ft: | 922 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 46041 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-16516[1] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 433268 |
Cyclone is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana.
The town's name commemorates a destructive tornado that struck the area on June 14, 1880. A 1913 county history states,
[It was] the most destructive storm that ever visited the county, either since its settlement or in traditional history. It was a genuine cyclone with a "funnel shaped cloud," which swept over a curved path of over forty miles in this and adjoining counties, leaving desolation in its wake. It was estimated to have done $200,000 damage in this county. The present town, which was located about that time as a railroad station, was in the path of the storm and was named for it.[2]
A post office was established at Cyclone in 1883, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1933.[3]