BlockErwin, Indiana
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Black Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47620. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1917 USGS Uniontown quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1952 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
35,592 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Black Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Black Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Erwin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Posey Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmersville | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| Dead Mans Crossing | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Grafton | 2.4 miles | 21 | |
| Upton | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Solitude | 2.6 miles | 21 | |
| Mount Vernon | 3.5 miles | 19 | |
| Bufkin | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Savah | 4.1 miles | 21 |
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 Erwin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q22034018 | 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 434235. 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.