BlockCircleville, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Rushville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46173. The Survey maps it on the Rushville quadrangle.
On record in Circleville
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 8 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Rush County Courthouselisted 1975 · 0.6 miles away
Durbin Hotellisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
Rushville Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Melodeon Halllisted 1973 · 0.7 miles away
St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1997 · 0.7 miles away
John K. Gowdy Houselisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away
Wendell Lewis Willkie Houselisted 1993 · 1.0 miles away- East Hill Cemeterylisted 2014 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 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
- 1959 USGS Rushville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
66,939 words on this townshipHistory of Rush County, Indiana, from the Earliest Time to the Present : with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc., Together with a Short History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1888 names this settlement in its chapter on Rushville Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Besides the above important additions, there have been quite a - number of smaller ones not necessary to be here enumerated. These later additions have been rapidh' taken up and improved by laboring men, through the beneficent aid of the building associations. These associations are emphatically the friends of the poor man. Manj^ a man now enjoys the blessings of a home that is in verity his own by their aid; without this organization he would be now a renter at the mercy of a landlord. The growth and development of Rushville has been steady and real, but scarcely keeping pace with the advance of the county in wealth and financial prosperit3^ Rushville has never been cursed by that unfounded and fictitious inflation of values, usually known as a boom, and which is worked up by unscrupulous speculators and tricksters for their own gain. About 1856, Col. Alfred Posey built, and for several years run a large distiller^', in what is now Circleville. This afforded a good market for all surplus grain. But the farmers found that it was more profitable to feed their corn to their hogs than to sell it, so that the distillery could not get enough to make the manufacture of whisk}- very remunerative to the owner.
Passage source: History of Rush County, Indiana, from the Earliest Time to the Present : with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc., Together with a Short History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1888.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
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 Circleville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rush Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Circleville in 5 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | $200,000 | Thunderstorm downburst winds blew down trees through the town of Rushville and along the south side of town...damaging 6 homes, including partial roof damage to a building on the southwest side of Rushville. Winds continued to down trees and powerlines to the southeast side of Rushville. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | $50,000 | A survey conducted by the NWS determined that a microburst caused significant damage to portions of Rushville. Several utility poles were snapped or bent. A small communications tower was bent at the joint as well as several large trees either uprooted or snapped near the base. |
| November 2017 | Flash Flood | Circleville | $15,000 | Four inches of rain was causing small streams to exceed their banks and water to enter a basement east of Rushville. |
| July 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Circleville | $4,000 | Trees damaged due to thunderstorm wind gusts. Items from yard were also blown into a nearby field. |
| March 2020 | Hail | Circleville | - | 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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 432531. 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.