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Brisco, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Pine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47993. The Survey maps it on the Pine Village quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Brisco within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

In the county-history sources

73,342 words on this township

Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pine Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pine Township - 73,342 words.

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
Rocky Ford1.8 miles9
Rainsville2.3 miles9
Carbondale3.6 miles10
Hooker Corner3.7 miles9
Judyville4.1 miles9
Sycamore Corner5.4 miles9
Tab6.1 miles11
Mudlavia Springs6.1 miles10

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 BriscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4968643The 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 431533. 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.