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Baldwin Heights, Indiana

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Patoka Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47670. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle.

Baldwin Heights within Gibson County

On record in Baldwin Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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.

In the county-history sources

7,017 words on this township

History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884; History of Gibson County, Indiana : Her People, Industries and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the 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 Patoka Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Patoka Township - 7,017 words.

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 Baldwin Heights: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Gibson County Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Gibson 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
Princeton1.0 miles24
King2.6 miles24
Douglas3.8 miles24
Patoka4.6 miles24
Lyles5.1 miles23
Fort Gibson (historical)5.6 miles24
Durham5.7 miles24
McGary6.1 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452107. 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.