Benwood, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47834. It stands on Van Buren Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brazil East quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Benwood within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1950 USGS Brazil East quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Brazil East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Benwood: 8 producers, 5 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Coal, Clay, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
C & F Shale Pit 1	Clay, Stone	Producer
Cardonia Pit	Clay, Coal	Past Producer
Indiana Clay Sales Pit	Coal, Clay	Past Producer
S. L. Turner Coal & Clay Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
C & F Shale Pit 2	Clay	Producer
E and E Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
S.L. Turner Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plant #2	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plants #'s 3 & 4	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Brazil Brick Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cardonia	0.3 miles	14
Shady Lane	1.5 miles	14
Harmony	1.7 miles	14
Pontiac	2.0 miles	14
Donaldsonville	2.3 miles	14
Knightsville	2.4 miles	14
Carbon	2.5 miles	14
Brazil	2.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Benwood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4890717	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 430833. 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.