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Darrough Chapel, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46901. The Survey maps it on the Kokomo East quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Darrough Chapel within Howard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Darrough Chapel: 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc. 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
American Standard PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Howard Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z77Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite
Yeoman Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kokomo Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kyle Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Howard 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
Kokomo2.1 miles11
Shambaugh Siding3.0 miles11
Center3.6 miles10
Vermont3.7 miles10
Indian Heights3.9 miles11
Oakford4.1 miles10
Alto4.6 miles11
Hemlock5.0 miles10

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 Darrough ChapelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5225331The 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 433322. 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.