Eddy, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Clearspring Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46795. The Survey maps it on the Oliver Lake quadrangle.

Eddy within LaGrange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1947 USGS Oliver Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Oliver Lake quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Oliver Lake quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Eddy: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Miller Pit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Elmer's Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Suever Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Wolcottville Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eddy in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eddy	-	The public reported a tree down onto a house and car.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Eddy	-	Tree down on house and car.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Eddy	-	Local media reported a tree was blown down onto power lines.
September 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Eddy	-	Local media reported a tree was blown down onto an unoccupied car as well as a power line.
November 2017	Hail	Eddy	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Eddy	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in LaGrange 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
Webers Landing	2.3 miles	12
Witmer Manor	2.8 miles	12
Valentine	4.6 miles	12
Topeka	5.4 miles	10
Adams Lake	6.3 miles	14
Woodruff	6.3 miles	14
Lagrange	7.4 miles	14
Emma	7.5 miles	10

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.

Wikidata item Q19881090

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 433999. 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.