Cale, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Mitcheltree Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47581. It stands on Little Sulphur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indian Springs quadrangle. It stands 531 feet above sea level.

Cale within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1956 USGS Indian Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Indian Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Bedford quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Cale: 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Martin 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
Indian Springs	0.7 miles	13
Mount Olive	3.0 miles	22
Dover Hill	5.6 miles	15
Willow Valley	7.2 miles	18
Burns City	7.4 miles	13
Bramble	8.5 miles	13
Shoals Overlook	8.5 miles	15
Shoals	9.2 miles	15

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 Cale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5019183	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 449812. 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.