Birchim, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Galena Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46371. The Survey maps it on the New Carlisle quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Birchim within LaPorte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS New Carlisle quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1983 USGS South Bend quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Birchim: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Crosby Marl Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
	Hunt Lake Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
Hillside	0.8 miles	10
Saugany Lake	1.0 miles	10
Hicks	1.8 miles	10
Rolling Prairie	2.8 miles	10
Lake Park	2.8 miles	10
Smith	3.5 miles	10
Hudson Lake	3.6 miles	10
Byron	3.9 miles	10

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 Q4915742

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 431100. 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.