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Crompton Hill, 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.

Crompton Hill 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.

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; History of Parke and Vermillion Counties, Indiana : with Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Clinton Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Clinton Township - 8,785 words.

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 Crompton Hill: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clinton Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
D. Robertson Gravel Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Clinton1.1 miles14
Klondyke1.3 miles14
Fairview Park1.7 miles14
Sandytown2.3 miles14
Needmore2.6 miles17
Syndicate2.7 miles17
Centenary2.9 miles14
Universal2.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 433146. 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.