Cuba, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46743. The Survey maps it on the Grabill quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Cuba within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Grabill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Grabill quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

5,970 words on this township

History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880 names this settlement in its chapter on Springfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Springfield is situated in the northeastern part of Allen County, and is bounded as flows: North by DeKalb County, east by Scipio Township, south by Maumee and Milan Townships, west by Cedar Creek Township. It has an area of 35.26 square miles. It was organized at the September term of the Board of County Commissioners, 1837, and comprised Township 32 north, of Range 14 east; and Township, 32 north, of Range 15 east, was attached thereto. In 1843, the latter township was organized as Scipio, thus reducing the boundaries of Springfield to their present limits.

Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.

Jeremiah Whaley, a native of New York, visited the township in 1836, and entered a tract of land to whi h he removed in the succeeding year. He remained in the township until 1855, when he sold his farm, and went to reside in the State of Iowa. About a year later, he decided to return to his former home, but died during the journey.

Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.

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 Springfield Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

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 Cuba: 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
	Woodburn Stone Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuba in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	-	Fire department reports powerlines down.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Cuba	-	Emergency management officials reported a three foot diameter tree was blown down.

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Harlan	1.2 miles	11
Grabill	2.3 miles	11
Milan Center	2.9 miles	11
Bluecast	4.3 miles	11
Five Points	4.3 miles	11
Leo-Cedarville	4.5 miles	12
Cedarville	4.6 miles	12
Leo	4.6 miles	12

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 Cuba	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5191931	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 433233. 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.