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Dunlapsville, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47353. It stands on Silver Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Fairfield quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Dunlapsville within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dunlapsville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Union Co. Hwy. DeptStoneProducer
Union County MaterialsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunlapsville in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Thunderstorm WindDunlapsville$15,000Several trees were snapped and a barn sustained some roof damage. Also, a picnic table was picked up and thrown northeast of its original position. A rowboat was picked up and dropped across a field. Finally, a dock was lifted and torn out and boards were thrown across the pond up in a tree.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindDunlapsville$5,000Numerous trees were downed in Whitewater Memorial State Park due to thunderstorm winds.
March 2008FloodDunlapsville$5,000Numerous roads flooded, including Brownsville Road in Yankeetown and State Route 44 at Nine Mile Bridge.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindDunlapsville$2,000Trees were knocked down.
March 2023FloodDunlapsville-Several roads were closed across the county due to high water.
August 2015HailDunlapsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Quakertown0.9 miles11
Roseburg2.5 miles17
Liberty4.5 miles14
Billingsville5.1 miles17
Brownsville5.1 miles10
Salem5.5 miles17
Lotus5.7 miles17
Cottage Grove7.0 miles16

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 DunlapsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315422The 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 433790. 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.