BlockBrooks, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Fall Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46055. It stands on Mount Zion Branch. The Survey maps it on the McCordsville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1952 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1998 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Fall Creek township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
A Happy Hunting Ground
In the early days Fall Creek township was one of the best "hunting grounds/' not only for the red men but later for their pale-faced brothers. It was in this section that the Indians who were murdered by Bridges and Sawyer were hunting and the fine furs and pelts in their possession, coveted by the two whites, were the direct cause of the murders.
In the county-history sources
2,634 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Fall Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Fall Creek Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
1 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brooks in 2004, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brooks: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mccordsville Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Fishers Sand Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Mccordsville 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Springs of Cambridge | 0.2 miles | 12 | |
| Highland Springs | 0.6 miles | 12 | |
| Breakwater | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| The Portage | 1.2 miles | 12 | |
| Forest Knoll | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| The Anchorage | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Bradford Court | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Brooks Crossing | 1.5 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 452115. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.