Elliston, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Fairplay Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47424. It stands on Lattas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bloomfield quadrangle. It stands 513 feet above sea level.

Elliston within Greene County

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.

1908 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
1951 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

20 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Elliston in 2008, burning about 14 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
25 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
12 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
9 November 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
23 November 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Elliston: 6 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Coal. 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
Comet Pit	Clay, Coal	Past Producer
Greene Co. Hwy. Dept.- Own Crews	Stone	Producer
Bloomfield Sand & Gravel Corp.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bloomfield Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Greene County Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Furnace Bank No. 2	Iron	Occurrence
Furnace Bank No. 2	Iron	Prospect
Richland Furnace Ore Bank No. 1	Iron	Past Producer
Richland Furnace Ore Bank No. 1	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

13 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elliston in 13 storm reports between 2006 and 2008: 13 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 2008	Flood	Elliston	$20,000,000	Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Elliston and Newberry, due to heavy rain and levee breaches.
February 2008	Flood	Elliston	$15,000	Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Elliston, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
March 2008	Flood	Elliston	$15,000	Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Elliston, due to heavy rain.
March 2008	Flood	Elliston	$12,000	Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Elliston, due to heavy rain. Flooding continued until April 6th at 21:11.
March 2008	Flood	Elliston	$11,000	Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Elliston, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
February 2007	Flood	Elliston	$10,000	The White River flooded in Greene County. High water continued into March.
March 2007	Flood	Elliston	$10,000	The White River flooded in Greene County. Crests were 5.5 feet above flood stage.
March 2007	Flood	Elliston	$10,000	The White River flooded in Greene County. Crests were nearly 7 feet above flood stage.
March 2007	Flood	Elliston	$10,000	The White River remained in flood from late February into March. Crests were over 4 feet above flood stage.
December 2006	Flood	Elliston	$10,000	The White River flooded in Greene County. The river crested nearly 4 feet above flood stage.
December 2006	Flood	Elliston	$10,000	The White River flooded in Greene County. The river crested at over 6 feet above flood stage.
July 2008	Flood	Elliston	$3,000	Excessive rainfall created flooding in Greene county along the White River, including near Elliston.
April 2008	Flood	Elliston	-	Flooding occurred along the White River in Greene County, including near Elliston, due to heavy rain. This flooding was a continuation of flooding that began on March 27th at 1300. Flood damage estimates for March are estimated at twelve thousand dollars.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Bloomfield	1.8 miles	15
Hashtown	2.5 miles	15
Plummer	3.2 miles	14
Furnace	3.2 miles	15
Stalcup Corner	3.3 miles	14
Switz City	4.4 miles	17
Dixon	4.4 miles	17
Rincon	5.3 miles	15

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 Elliston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5366067	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 434112. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.