Artic, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Troy Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46721. The Survey maps it on the Butler East quadrangle.

Artic within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butler East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

444 words on this township

History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Troy Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Troy Township - 444 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Artic: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hoffman Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weber Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Artic in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flash flood. 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
May 2010	Flash Flood	Artic	$50,000	Trained spotters reported several flooded roads across eastern portions of the county. Water was as high as the bumpers on vehicles, with water approaching a few homes and washing out road shoulders.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Butler	4.3 miles	11
Stafford Center	4.6 miles	11
Taylor Corner	7.2 miles	10
Newville	8.8 miles	11
Moore	9.0 miles	10
Orangeville	9.8 miles	11
Newville Center	11.0 miles	11
Waterloo	11.3 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q16975411

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 430286. 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.