Ekin, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46072. The Survey maps it on the Sheridan quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.

Ekin within Tipton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Sheridan quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

4,049 words on this township

History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

McKinsey settled also in the southern districts, and was joined a few months later by his son, John, Jr., who made the first improvements on the farm, later owned by John Straley. Allen squatted a short distance south of Tetersburg, and was the first cobbler in the township, a trade at which he worked for a number of years. Holmes secured land near the western border of the county, and was one of the early teachers in the township schools. Cooper settled on the southern county line where the village of Ekin stands, and served as the first justice of the peace in Jefferson township. A son came to the county in company with his father, and lived here for fifteen or twenty years. Mills settled in the south part of the township, and was always known as a good citizen and a Quaker. He afterward removed to Liberty township. Robert Smith located near the village of Goldsmith, and Loke located near Tetersburg, where he built the first blacksmith shop in the township. He later removed to the Western states.

Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.

Ekin is a hamlet situated in the southern part of the township, on the county line. The first store was operated by James McKee, who built for the purpose a frame building. After five years he sold out and moved. Ekin was named by McKee for General Ekin, who had charge of the government depot at Jeffersonville at that time. For his appreciation of the naming of the town for him, the General sent a large Bible to Mr. McKee to be used in the United Presbyterian church, at Bethsaida.

Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.

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 Jefferson Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ekin in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Ekin	$750	A 16 inch, partially dead tree was blown down due to strong thunderstorm wind gusts. A wind gust at the time was measured at 48 mph.

Every storm recorded in Tipton 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
East Union	1.8 miles	10
Tetersburg	4.1 miles	9
Goldsmith	5.0 miles	9
Normanda	5.9 miles	9
Kempton	6.1 miles	9
Tipton	7.8 miles	9
Groomsville	9.2 miles	9
Jacksons	9.4 miles	9

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 Ekin	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18150267	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 434057. 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.

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.