BlockAlvarado, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Richland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46742. The Survey maps it on the Edon quadrangle. It stands 961 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1940 USGS Metz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Edon quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Adrian quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
7,161 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Richland 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 Richland Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Alvarado: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flegal Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alvarado in 2 storm reports in 2007: 2 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Alvarado | - | Southwest of Alvarado on State Route 427, videotape shows the second of three weak tornadoes, spawned by a persistant supercell. Trees in the area obscured the exact point of touch down, but no damage was reported in the approximate area of the touchdown. |
| July 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Alvarado | - | The final in a series of three weak tornadoes was videotaped south of Alvarado on State Route 427. The tornado touched down briefly in an open field and then either dissipated or lost its condensation funnel. Another brief tornado became evident just east of the first one a few minutes later, but quickly dissipated. No damage was reported from this tornado. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metz | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Ravinia Oaks | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Courtney Corner | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Otsego Center | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Cold Springs | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Clarks Landing | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Fountain Park | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Circle Park | 4.3 miles | 14 |
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 Alvarado | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27988941 | The 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 430126. 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.