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Bartle, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Polk Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47165. It stands on South Poplar Branch. The Survey maps it on the South Boston quadrangle.

Bartle within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

1,709 words on this township

Centennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Polk Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Polk Township - 1,709 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Bartle: 12 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Bunker Hill1.0 miles9
Blue River3.5 miles9
New Salem4.3 miles9
Daisy Hill4.6 miles9
South Boston5.1 miles9
New Philadelphia6.3 miles11
Farabee6.8 miles15
Old Pekin7.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 446743. 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.