Buchanan, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47150. It lies near Eiseman Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Lanesville quadrangle.

Buchanan within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1909 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:48000
1912 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1950 USGS Kosmosdale quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Lanesville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Buchanan: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Neely Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd 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
Edwardsville	4.7 miles	14
Duncan	5.1 miles	14
Silver Hills	5.4 miles	19
New Albany	6.2 miles	19
Georgetown	6.7 miles	14
Floyds Knobs	7.6 miles	19
Galena	9.6 miles	14
Saint Marys	9.8 miles	19

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 Q17986137

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 452123. 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.