Buena Vista, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47340. It stands on Mortar Run. The Survey maps it on the Carlos quadrangle. It stands 1,122 feet above sea level.

Buena Vista within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 12 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Carlos quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

In the county-history sources

60,303 words on this township

History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The school is now under the supervision of Mr. Milton A. Roberts, a graduate of Spiceland Academy, a gentleman of fine talents and of high promise for future usefulness as an instructor of youth. It was originally a boarding school, but the change of tiiuos has brought it to be cl'iolly a neighlxirhood school. However, it is still accomplishing a good work for those who attend its instructions.

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

My master had his fourth wife. We were to work the place and take care of her till she died, and we were to have the surplus of all we could make off the jilace, and Michael and myself were to have each one a horse and four- sheep, and our freedom.

Was born in South Carolina, a freeman, in 1782. He came to Tennessee, and afterward to Wayne County, Ind., and again to Darke County, Ohio, Greenville settlement - the latter movement in 1888. He had thirteen children, eleven of whom became grown and were married and nine are now living. Their names were William, James, Priscilla. Lucy, Silas, Lewis, Daniel, Thomas, Caroline, John, Joel, Sidna, Biddy. He died in 1848. His wife, Polly, died in 1870. She is said to have been several years older than her husband, and to have been upward of a hundred years old when she died, in 1876. If so, she must have been born before the Declaration of Independence was made, and she had lived through the entire period of our independent national existence.

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 Union Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.

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 Buena Vista: 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
	H & S Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Unionport	1.2 miles	12
Huntsville	3.4 miles	12
Scott Corner	3.5 miles	11
Maxville	4.0 miles	13
Pinch	4.0 miles	11
Georgetown	4.6 miles	11
Farmland	5.5 miles	11
Rural	5.7 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.

Wikipedia article on Buena Vista	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30595275	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 431765. 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.