BlockAylesworth, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Boone Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46341. The Survey maps it on the Kouts quadrangle. It stands 676 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Kouts quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Kouts quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Kankakee quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Kouts quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
16,545 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Boone Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Boone Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
3 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aylesworth in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Lightning | Aylesworth | $10,000 | Lightning struck a house on Road 400 West and started a fire which damaged the roof. |
| May 2019 | Flood | Aylesworth | - | Near Wheeler, 450 N was closed due to high water near 475 W and 400 N was closed due to high water west of 375 W. Near South Haven, 200 W was closed due to flooding near Route 6. Near Chesterton, 1300 N was closed due to flooding near the east arm of the Little Calumet River, west of 450 E and 1400 N was closed due to flooding west of Brummitt Road. Near Valparaiso, an amusement center was flooded by Salt Creek near Route 30 and Route 2. Numerous residential streets were flood in Portage. East of Portage, Central Avenue and Samuelson Road were closed due to flooding from Robbins Ditch. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Aylesworth | - | Trees and powerlines were blown down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boone Grove | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Five Points Corner | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Hebron | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Kouts | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Hurlburt | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Malden | 6.1 miles | 14 | |
| Porter Crossroads | 6.1 miles | 13 | |
| Smoke Corner | 7.0 miles | 14 |
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 Q30623743 | 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 430366. 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.