Shimpe observes Ganeshotsav on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
Temples near Shimpe
Named places of worship on record
By population, Shimpe ranks #19 of 144 villages in Shahuwadi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Shimpe is a village of 2,235 people in 456 households (Census 2011) in Shahuwadi taluka, Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, the 19th-largest of 144 villages in Shahuwadi taluka. Literacy is 72%, 8 points above the taluka average of 63% and the sex ratio is 966 women per 1,000 men. It lies 62 km from the Kolhapur district centre, 27 km from Kameri, the nearest town, 33 km from Shri Chatrapati Shahu Maharaj Terminus railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 416214, served by Sarud post office; the LGD village code is 567081. The nearest hospital or health centre is Yashoda Hospital, 5 km away. The village votes in Karad North assembly constituency, represented by MLA Manoj Bhimrao Ghorpade. The population is estimated at 2,635 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Shimpe →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
2 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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