BlockBefore

Amity, Indiana

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blue River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46131. The Survey maps it on the Franklin quadrangle.

Amity within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 printed sheets

Matched 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.

In the county-history sources

23,461 words on this township

A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Blue River Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In I^l'2, fourteen families moved in. Of these Able Webb, dames Connor. Eezekiah Davison, William Hunt, James M. Daniels, John Shipp, William Barnett, David Durbin, Hiram Aldridge and Thomas Russell were from Kentucky. Charles Martin and Samuel Umpstead were from Ohio, and it is not ascertained whence came Baker Wells and Samuel Johnson, who came in this year. In 1823, William Freeman moved from Bartholomew County into the township, and Richard Shipp and John Ilendrickson also moved in. All these were Kentucky born. By the close of 1828, there were at least sixty-three families living in the township.

Passage source: A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, published 1881.

It is uncertain when the town of Edinburg was laid out, but, from all the evidence that has been adduced, it would seem that it could not have been later than in the spring of 1822. It is hard to reconcile this date with certain recordsin existence, but so many of the old men during the past fifteen years have asserted their confidence in a date not later than the one given, that it would seem to be safe to follow it. Louis Bishop and Alexander Thompson were the projectors of the place. They early saw that a town would be a necessity to the country which was destined to grow up about them within a few years" and determined that the necessity should be supplied on the banks of the Blue River. This was the center of a thriving settlement. The lands surrounding it for many miles were of the finest quality, and the "rapids '* in Blue River offered a splendid mill site, and so the town was located.

Passage source: A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, published 1881.

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 Blue River Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Amity: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shelby Gravel, Edinburg Div.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amity in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026Thunderstorm WindAmity$50,000Thunderstorm wind gusts flipped a semi-trailer truck on Interstate 65.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindAmity$10,000Trees were reported down along with minor building damage due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 2008FloodAmity$5,000Flooding occurred along Youngs Creek in Johnson County, including near Amity, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
February 2008FloodAmity$5,000Flooding occurred along Youngs Creek in Johnson County, including near Amity, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
June 2008Flash FloodAmity$5,000Roadways were covered and previous flooding conditions were exacerbated due to heavy rainfall that caused flash flooding.
June 2008Flash FloodAmity$5,000Roadways were covered and previous flooding conditions were exacerbated due to heavy rainfall that caused renewed flash flooding.
July 2012HailAmity-no account filed
September 2001Thunderstorm WindAmity-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Franklin4.7 miles23
Edinburgh5.3 miles15
Nineveh6.3 miles23
Urmeyville6.7 miles12
Mount Pleasant6.7 miles23
Princes Lakes7.2 miles23
Needham7.3 miles12
Hopewell7.6 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 430138. 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.