Cartersburg, Indiana
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46168. It stands on Cosner Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plainfield quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 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.
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Plainfield quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
9,884 words on this townshipHistory of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Thomas Hinton was the first Justice of the Peace, and "William Pope, a Baptist minister, did the first preaching, and organized tlie first Baptist church in Hendricks County, in his own house, in the autumn of 1823.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.
The first house was built by William H. Hinton, who kept also !he first store. The first resident physician was Dr. B. B. Bartholomew, now of Danville. The village contains three religious organizations, the Methodist, Christian and Baptist. There are but two church buildings, however, belonging to the first two denominations mentioned. There are two stores, the proprietors being respectively W. J. Cope and Hamrick & White, two blacksmith shops and a wagon-shop. The population is about 250.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.
The White Lick Church (Baptist) was the first of any denomination organized in Hendricks County. It was formed March 27, lS2i, by Eld.r William Pope, with the following members: Thomas Hinton and wife, James Thompson and wife and Chris. Pope. This little band met at the house of Elder Pope for several years, and in 1831 built a church at Belleville - a frame building 30x40. After a number of years the church was divided, a portion going to Clayton and organizing the Missionary Baptist church. Many of the first members having died, the Belleville church went down, and but one or two members now survive. The church building, too, has been torn down.
Passage source: History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.
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 Liberty Township - it names this place 10 more 10 times.
Fires near this place
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Cartersburg in 2007, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 March 2007 | 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
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cartersburg: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Happy Valley Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cartersburg in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2013: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cartersburg | $5,000 | Trees were reported down near Cartersburg due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cartersburg | $1,500 | A 12 to 18 inch pine tree was reported down on a house in Cartersburg on Martin Road. The damage was due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. No information concerning any damage to the house was reported. |
| August 2012 | Hail | Cartersburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2010 | Hail | Cartersburg | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magnetic Springs | 0.8 miles | 16 | |
| North Belleville | 1.7 miles | 16 | |
| Belleville | 2.0 miles | 16 | |
| Clayton | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Plainfield | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Summit | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Gale | 4.7 miles | 15 | |
| Center Valley | 4.8 miles | 16 |
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 Cartersburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5047254 | 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 449632. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.







