Delp, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47905. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lafayette East quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Delp within Tippecanoe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Lafayette East quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Lafayette East quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Delp: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Bratz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lafayette Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lafayette Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Battle Ground	2.2 miles	9
Buck Creek	2.5 miles	13
Birmingham	2.7 miles	13
Americus	3.7 miles	9
Heath	4.5 miles	9
Ash Grove	4.5 miles	9
Meadowbrook	4.8 miles	13
Eastwitch	4.8 miles	13

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 Delp	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988874	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 433460. 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.