BlockBringhurst, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Monroe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46913. The Survey maps it on the Flora quadrangle. 215 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 722 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Flora quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
127 words on this townshipHistory of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Monroe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Flora, an incorporated town, has a population of one thousand six hundred, and is located on the Vandalia railroad, in this township. Bringhurst is a town of about six hundred inhabitants, situate in this township and on the Vandalia railroad. Flora and Bringhurst each have fine high school buildings. These two rival towns are only one mile apart.
Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bringhurst: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carroll County Highway Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bringhurst in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bringhurst | $25,000 | Tv media received a photograph from a viewer of metal roofing removed from a small barn by thunderstorm wind gusts. The viewer also reported small limbs down. |
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bringhurst | $7,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bringhurst | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Some of these trees were approximately five feet in diameter. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bringhurst | $4,000 | Trees were reported down in Flora due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Some corn was also damaged with breakage. |
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bringhurst | - | An estimated 65 mph thunderstorm wind gust was observed in Flora. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flora | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Adams Mill | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Cutler | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Ray | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Lexington | 5.0 miles | 10 | |
| Camden | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Radnor | 5.9 miles | 9 | |
| Harley Siding | 6.1 miles | 9 |
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 Bringhurst | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4968346 | 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 431531. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.