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Gaynorsville, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sandcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47240. It stands on Fall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Westport quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Gaynorsville within Decatur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

2,767 words on this township

History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sandcreek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sandcreek Township - 2,767 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gaynorsville: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Harris City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sipes Stone QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Decatur 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
Pinhook1.6 miles11
Tarkeo Corner2.4 miles10
Letts2.4 miles11
Harris City2.7 miles11
Horace2.7 miles11
Letts Corner3.0 miles11
Mapleton Corner3.8 miles11
Forest Hill5.0 miles11

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 GaynorsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5528901The 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 435000. 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.