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Annapolis, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Penn Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47832. The Survey maps it on the Montezuma quadrangle. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Annapolis within Parke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

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 Annapolis: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Dee Clay Products Company, Inc.ClayProducer

Every working recorded in Parke County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Annapolis in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2005LightningAnnapolis2 hurtTwo men fishing in a canoe on Sugar Creek were struck by lightning. Both were injured, one of them seriously. The seriously injured man required cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindAnnapolis$20,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines across the northern part of Parke County.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindAnnapolis$10,000Scattered trees were reported down near the intersection of US Highway 41 and State Route 47.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAnnapolis$4,000Trees were reported down near the intersection of Highways 41 and 47 in northeast Parke County due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2018HailAnnapolis-Dime to nickel sized hail was observed in this location.
December 2008FloodAnnapolis-Water was reported to be over State Road 236 close to Milligan, Indiana. Six to twelve inches of water was located east of Marshall at the bottom of Guion Hill on this road. End time of flood is roughly estimated.
April 2017HailAnnapolis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Parke 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
Stumptown1.3 miles13
Bloomingdale1.3 miles14
Cincinnati1.3 miles14
Pottertown (historical)1.6 miles13
Coke Oven Hollow2.2 miles13
Rockport2.5 miles13
Marshall3.3 miles14
West Union4.6 miles13

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 AnnapolisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4767952The 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 430182. 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.