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Edinburgh, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Blue River Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46124. It stands on Big Blue River. The Survey maps it on the Edinburgh quadrangle.

Edinburgh within Johnson County

On record in Edinburgh

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

23,461 words on this township

A Historical Sketch of Johnson County, Indiana, published 1881; History of Johnson County, Indiana : from the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc. Together with a Short History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1888 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Blue River Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Blue River Township - 23,461 words.

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 Edinburgh: 2 producers. All of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jefferson Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shelby Gravel, Edinburg Div.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edinburgh in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996Thunderstorm WindEdinburgh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Amity5.3 miles23
Nineveh6.3 miles23
Princes Lakes7.0 miles23
Peoga9.4 miles23
Franklin9.9 miles23
Trafalgar10.7 miles21
Mount Pleasant10.9 miles23
Urmeyville11.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 434019. 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.