Elston, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Fairfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47909. The Survey maps it on the Lafayette West quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Elston within Tippecanoe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1941 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000
1942 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Lafayette West quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Lafayette West quadrangle1:24000

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Elston: 7 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. 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
Rostone Crp/ Lafayette Oprtns.	Aluminum	Occurrence
Rostone Crp/ Lafayette Oprtns.	Aluminum	Plant
Bratz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Casi Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Elwood Sales	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fairfield Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lafayette Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lafayette Portable Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Macy's Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Taylor Station	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tippecanoe County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elston in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 hail. 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 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elston	$25,000	Multiple trees downed by thunderstorm wind gusts across Lafayette.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Elston	$15,000	Large tree limbs were downed onto cars near Brady lane due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. Other tree damage was noted across Lafayette.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Elston	$15,000	Trees, tree limbs, and power lines were reported down in Lafayette due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A few homes lost a some shingles and siding as well.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Elston	$5,000	Several medium to large trees were uprooted on South 9th Street due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. This report was relayed via social media.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Elston	$2,000	Large tree limbs downed by thunderstorm wind gusts south of Lafayette.
May 2017	Flood	Elston	$2,000	Indiana Department of Homeland Security reported seven people and a dog being rescued from where they were camping behind the city's waste water treatment plant. They became stranded by rising water near the 800 block of South River Road. Police received a call from one of the campers at about 7:45 AM EDT Saturday. Conservation officers had to launch an air boat through a field to get to them. No injuries were reported.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Elston	-	A 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured on the south side of Lafayette.
February 2009	Flood	Elston	-	Flooding occurred along the Wabash River in Tippecanoe County, including in and near Lafayette, due to heavy rain.
June 2009	Hail	Elston	-	A trained spotter observed penny sized hail near Fort Ouiatenon.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Elston	-	A tree was blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2017	Hail	Elston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tippecanoe 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
Norma Jean Addition	1.8 miles	18
Summit	1.9 miles	18
Altamont Switch	2.1 miles	13
Tecumseh	2.2 miles	13
West Lafayette	2.3 miles	18
Lafayette	2.4 miles	18
Shadeland	2.5 miles	9
Happy Hollow Heights	3.5 miles	18

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 Elston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988897	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 434143. 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.