BlockForaker, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46526. The Survey maps it on the Foraker quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Foraker quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
28,158 words on this townshipHistory of Elkhart County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities ... and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-historic Races .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
of bullets of a large size in piles, buried in the ground aboutthe depth that they plowed. They were in a marshy piece of ground, which at one time formed a pond of several acres. They picked up seven or eight hundred, which seemed to have been in several piles near together.
Passage source: History of Elkhart County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities ... and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-historic Races .., published 1881.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
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 Foraker: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christner Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foraker in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2008 | Flood | Foraker | $250,000 | Around one dozen roads were closed across the county, as well in Elkhart and Goshen as a result of either a foot or more of standing water on roadsway, or rising river levels. No mandatory evacuations were put in place. Several city and county parks were partially under water with damage to sidewalks and some retaining walls. No exact damage figures are available, but are estimated at $250,000. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | A trained spotter reported large branches down on County Road 15, north of County Road 38. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Foraker | - | A trained spotter reported a 72 mph wind gust. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| New Paris | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Waterford Mills | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Wakarusa | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Locke | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Bainter Town | 5.7 miles | 12 | |
| Nappanee | 6.5 miles | 11 | |
| Goshen | 6.6 miles | 12 |
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 Foraker | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5467177 | 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 434635. 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.