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Five Points, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46158. The Survey maps it on the Mooresville East quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Five Points within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

In the county-history sources

1,994 words on this township

Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Madison Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Madison Township - 1,994 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Five Points: 12 producers, 5 past producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
High Bluff QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Adams PitClayProducer
Bethany Park Clay & Shale PitClayPast Producer
BrooklynClayProducer
Gen Shale Prdts Brick Plnt/BrooklynFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Hydraulic Press Brick PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Indiana Tile PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Central Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Central Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Groninger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Morgan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Crestview Heights0.3 miles14
Fox Hill2.2 miles14
Young2.3 miles14
Wiser2.5 miles14
Fields2.6 miles14
Ridgewood2.7 miles14
Waverly2.9 miles14
Brookmoor3.2 miles14

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 Five PointsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30625386The 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 434550. 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.