Bluecast, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Maumee Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46797. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woodburn North quadrangle.

Bluecast within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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 Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Woodburn North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Maumee township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880 - Maumee Township

The Dawn Of Peace

the purpose of intercepting the retreat of the enemy. Succeeding in capturing a few British soldiers, who had been left in the general retreat, the Indians brought them to the camp, without doing them anj' injury; and, conscious that the}' had done their dut}', they were frequently seen telling the story to their brother warriors, and laughing at the terror which had been manifested b}- the soldiers, who, no doubt, expected to be massacred or carried off and destro3'ed by torture.

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In the county-history sources

40,892 words on this township

History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880; Valley of the Upper Maumee River, with Historical Account of Allen County and the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Maumee Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Maumee Township - 40,892 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 Bluecast: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Woodburn Stone Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Allen 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
Woodburn	2.2 miles	11
Harlan	3.9 miles	11
Milan Center	4.1 miles	11
Cuba	4.3 miles	11
Five Points	4.3 miles	11
Georgetown	5.4 miles	11
Halls Corners	6.0 miles	11
Edgerton	6.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 446650. 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.