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Edgewood, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46227. It stands on Fawn Run. The Survey maps it on the Maywood quadrangle.

Edgewood within Marion County

On record in Edgewood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

In the county-history sources

9,757 words on this township

History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perry Township - 9,757 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Edgewood: 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fluorine-Fluorite, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indianapolis 522 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Fluorite Occurrence Number 1Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Indianapolis Haveisen 510 MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant
Indianapolis Haveisen 510 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kentucky Avenue SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
R.L. Schutt Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

17 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewood in 17 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 11 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
June 2011Flash FloodEdgewood$5,000WISH-TV reported a few spots in eastern and southeast portions of Marion County where water is waist to six feet deep due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$1,500A live tree was downed at East Street and Thompson Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Also, four to five inch diameter tree limbs were down in the same location.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindEdgewood$1,000Several medium to large tree limbs snapped by thunderstorm wind gusts.
February 2019FloodEdgewood$1,000A storm drain clogged with garbage and the northbound lanes of Interstate 65 have flooded just south of the south split due to heavy rainfall.
May 2014Flash FloodEdgewood$1,000Water was reportedly approximately two feet deep at the intersection of Emerson Drive and Edgewood Drive due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall.
March 2016HailEdgewood-Quarter size hail was observed on the south side of Indianapolis near Highway 31 and Thompson Road.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindEdgewood-An estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was observed in this location.
May 2014HailEdgewood-Street flooding was also noted in this location.
May 2014HailEdgewood-This report came in from near the intersection of Interstate 465 and Highway 31.
March 2012HailEdgewood-The hail was observed and measured on the University of Indianapolis campus.
March 2016HailEdgewood-no account filed
July 2016HailEdgewood-no account filed
July 2016HailEdgewood-no account filed
May 2014HailEdgewood-no account filed
May 2014HailEdgewood-no account filed
June 2011HailEdgewood-no account filed
May 2011HailEdgewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Rosedale Hills0.6 miles17
Homecroft1.0 miles17
Twin Brooks1.3 miles17
University Heights1.4 miles17
Southport1.4 miles17
Perry Manor1.6 miles17
Lindenwood2.1 miles17
Beech Grove3.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 434013. 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.