Centenary, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47842. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle. It stands 604 feet above sea level.

Centenary within Vermillion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1951 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

8,785 words on this township

Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888 names this settlement in its chapter on Clinton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church is located about five miles west of Clinton, where Lewis Walraven is class-leader; and Trinity Church, nearly south of Clinton, is a place wliere a prosperous class worships, of whom John Ryan, Harrison Cole and William 'Wright are official members. These two classes are in the Clinton Circuit, of which Kev. J. B. Combs is preacher in charge, with residence at the parsonage in Clinton. This is in the Greencastle District, Northwest Indiana Conference, of which Rev. A. A. (lee is presiding elder. Clinton Circuit, including the town, had 300 members lastyear.

Passage source: Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888.

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 Clinton Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Centenary: 2 producers. 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
	Clinton Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	D. Robertson Gravel Company Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Vermillion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Centenary in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Centenary	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Vermillion 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
Klondyke	2.1 miles	14
Sandytown	2.2 miles	14
Blanford	2.5 miles	17
Universal	2.8 miles	17
Crompton Hill	2.9 miles	14
Fairview Park	3.3 miles	14
Easytown	3.6 miles	18
Tighe	3.7 miles	18

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 Centenary	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5059065	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 432301. 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.

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.