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Blackiston Village, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jeffersonville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47129. The Survey maps it on the New Albany quadrangle.

Blackiston Village within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Blackiston Village: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Salt, Magnesite. 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
Cargill Salt/ Clarksville, Ind.SaltPlant
Pilot Co. PitMagnesitePast Producer
Atkins Plant & QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Jeffersonville PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Louisville Sand&Gravel IncStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sellersburg Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Graysville0.8 miles19
Cementville2.8 miles21
Clarksville3.0 miles19
Hamburg3.8 miles14
Jeffersonville4.8 miles21
Sellersburg5.0 miles14
Watson5.1 miles21
Port Fulton5.2 miles21

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 Q122567786The 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 447327. 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.