BlockAshboro, Indiana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sugar Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47840. The Survey maps it on the Center Point quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1908 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:48000
- 1910 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Center Point quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ashboro: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Clay, Coal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashboro North Pit | Clay, Coal | Producer | ||
| Sphalerite Occurrence | Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Stratabound | |
| Sphalerite Occurrence Z83 | Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Stratabound |
Storms near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashboro in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Tornado (EF0) | Ashboro | $50,000 | An EF0 tornado touched down near the town of Ashboro in Clay County at approximately 630 PM EDT on the evening of June 4, 2007. The tornado tracked towards the southeast, and produced several areas of minor to moderate tree damage. Some of the damage to structures included three homes sustaining minor damage, a carport lifted off of the ground and damaged, a mini barn moved off of its blocks, and trees blown down onto a trampoline and a truck. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center Point | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Art | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Saline City | 2.7 miles | 17 | |
| Lap Corner | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Prairie City | 3.2 miles | 16 | |
| Stearleyville | 4.0 miles | 16 | |
| Bowling Green | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Hoosierville | 5.3 miles | 16 |
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 Ashboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4804618 | 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 449615. 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.