BlockAshland, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47362. It stands on Stone Branch. The Survey maps it on the New Castle East quadrangle. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1950 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,755 words on this townshipHenry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871 names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The aggregate value of the farms and improvements of Libcm township to-day exceeds that of the farms of any other township of the county, and the evidence of thrift and "farming for profit" arc nowhere mare generally visible than in Liberty township. Four villages have been projected in the township -Millville, Ashland, Petersburg, and Chicago, though it is presumed that the proprietors of the two last named, if still Living, have long since abandoned the hope of seeing them outstrip their namesakes. Under the new turnpike law, many miles of turnpike have sprung into existence, and to-day the
Passage source: Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland in 1 storm report in 2016: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Ashland | $500 | County Road 500 East was flooded north of State Route 38, near the Flatrock River due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. Local police blocked off the road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierson Station | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Belmont | 2.4 miles | 11 | |
| Corwin | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Millville | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hillsboro | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Messick | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| New Castle | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Van Nuys | 3.5 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.
| Wikipedia article on Ashland | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4805212 | 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 430310. 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.
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.