BlockChesterville, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Sparta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47032. It stands on Chesterville Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Dillsboro quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Dillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Dillsboro quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,127 words on this townshipHistory of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Sparta Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In the fall of 1818 a wagon road was cut through the woods from what is now Aurora to Moores Hill and to the Ripley county line. The first natural death is thought to have occurred in the township was that of Riley Truitt, which occurred in the year 1818. Adam Moore erected a grist-mill soon after he settled. It was a tread-wheel worked by animal power. A saw-mill was erected on North Hogan in 1830, by Lyman Smith., In 1828 James Hayes erected a grist-mill on South Hogan, in the wester part of the township, which he operated for about fifteen years, when in an attempt to cut the ice from the water wheel he fell and was crushed to death. The mill was after¬ wards operated by Joseph Bossong and Jacob Zapp. One of the first steam mills in the county was erected by Phineas King in the year 1839, and was run together with a woolen factory, which had previously been run by a tread wheel. It was situated on King's ridge near Chesterville, After King's death the machinery was removed to Milan. William Bt Miller, in the year 1839, erected the mills known as "Miller's Mills," in the southern part of the township on South Hogan. The first tan yard was started in 1817 by Samuel and Winslow Wood.
Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.
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 Sparta Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
3 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Chesterville between 2004 and 2005, burning about 9 acres 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 April 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 18 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chesterville in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Tornado (EF1) | Chesterville | $50,000 | The tornado likely began in a wooded area behind Longbranch Road, where downed trees were first noted. The most significant damage occurred at two residences on Longbranch Road. Nearly half of the metal roof of one residence was lifted and thrown in multiple directions, with insulation splattered on the residence and even onto parked vehicles. Trees on both properties were knocked down or blown over in multiple directions and the tree damage exhibited a very convergent pattern. The tornado is believed to have lifted in another wooded area to the southeast of Longbranch Road, as no other damage was seen on any roads to the southeast. |
| December 2011 | Flood | Chesterville | $1,000 | Several roads across the county were reported closed due to high water caused by heavy rain. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Springs | 1.1 miles | 10 | |
| Sparta | 2.6 miles | 10 | |
| Dillsboro Station | 2.7 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Sinai | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Dillsboro | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Moores Hill | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Wilmington | 5.6 miles | 19 | |
| Kyle | 5.9 miles | 17 |
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 Chesterville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5093875 | 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 432459. 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.
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.