Gale, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46122. The Survey maps it on the Brownsburg quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.

Gale within Hendricks 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.

1953 USGS Brownsburg quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Brownsburg quadrangle1:24000
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Brownsburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Center township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885 - Center Township

History Of Hendriok8 County

1 1 He was found dead in bis stable and was supposed to have been i murdered by his servant for his money. He was a man of note and ] influence. The Hadleys have been noted for their thrift, both in this and the old country. The most of them have been farmers i and all have owned the land they worked. Until the last genera- ; tion or two all have been Friends, and none were military men 1 until the late civil war, when several bore arms in defense of the !

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In the county-history sources

36,715 words on this township

History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885; History of Hendricks County, Indiana, Her People, Industries and Institutions, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Center Township covers desceiption, early settlement, towxship officials, fiest election, political, population, piiopertr and taxation.

Read the chapter on Center Township - 36,715 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gale in 2007, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
11 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hendricks County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Gale: 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
	Hendricks Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Hendricks 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
Danville	3.2 miles	12
Avon	3.6 miles	15
Nash	4.0 miles	12
Magnetic Springs	4.0 miles	16
Tilden	4.1 miles	15
Cartersburg	4.7 miles	16
Maplewood	5.1 miles	12
North Belleville	5.2 miles	16

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 Gale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5518250	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 449493. 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.