Edna Mills, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Ross Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46065. It stands on Campbells Run. The Survey maps it on the Pyrmont quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Edna Mills within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Pyrmont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

17,664 words on this township

History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886 names this settlement in its chapter on Ross Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In political sentiment Ross is somewhat varying but is usually Democratic, and in 1884 gave Cleveland a plurality of nineteen votes. The vote of the township at the last general election, November 4, 18S4, for President, State and county oflScers, was as follows :

Passage source: History of Clinton County, Indiana. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embodying Accounts of Prehistoric Races, Indian Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History, published 1886.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Ross Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

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 Edna Mills: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Barnard Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Skiles Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edna Mills in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2010: 1 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Flash Flood	Edna Mills	-	The entire town of Edna Mills was evacuated due to high water. School buses were brought in at the east end of town for evacuees, to be taken east to Rossville, Indiana. Indiana Department of Natural Resources brought in boats to get to the homes that were surrounded by water at time of evacuation. The decision to evacuate was made at 9 AM on the 22nd. Time of event is estimated. No damages are known.
May 2001	Hail	Edna Mills	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Rossville	3.9 miles	9
Mulberry	5.0 miles	10
Hamilton	5.7 miles	10
Cambria	6.8 miles	10
Mattix Corner	7.4 miles	10
Sedalia	8.1 miles	9
Moran	8.3 miles	9
Ellis	8.9 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.

Wikipedia article on Edna Mills	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5340081	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 434027. 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.