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Cloverland, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Posey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47834. The Survey maps it on the Brazil West quadrangle. It stands 607 feet above sea level.

Cloverland within Clay 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cloverland: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Marion Brick Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cloverland in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007Thunderstorm WindCloverland$1,000Trees and power lines were down in Cloverland due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCloverland$500Tree was downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts near US 340.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Purdy Hill1.3 miles14
Twin Beach1.8 miles14
Staunton2.4 miles17
Billtown2.5 miles14
Turner3.8 miles17
Bee Ridge4.1 miles14
Cottage Hill4.5 miles14
Billville5.6 miles14

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 CloverlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5135969The 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 432691. 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.