Cole, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sims Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46986. The Survey maps it on the Point Isabel quadrangle.

Cole within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 13 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Point Isabel quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

In the county-history sources

6,667 words on this township

History of Grant County, Indiana, published 1886 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sims Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sims Township - 6,667 words.

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 Cole: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Pipe Creek Jr. Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Grant 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
Normal	2.3 miles	13
Herbst	2.4 miles	10
Swayzee	2.8 miles	10
Weaver	3.2 miles	12
Sims	3.9 miles	13
Radley	4.1 miles	12
Roseburg	4.2 miles	12
Point Isabel	4.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 432752. 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.