Georgetown, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46947. It stands on Grants Run. The Survey maps it on the Burrows quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Georgetown within Cass County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Burrows quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,081 words on this township

History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

In 1834, A. B. Hildebrand settled on the farm where he is still living. The same year came David Wirrick, father of Washington Wirrick, of Cicott, who settled on the George Walker form ; Joseph Day, on the lot in the little village of Georgetown ; and Absalom Cruse, on the farm owned by the Rogers heirs.

Passage source: History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878.

The first mill in the township, and among the earliest in the county, was a corn cracker, built near the present site of Georgetown, about the 1829, by George Cicott. We did not mention the name of Mr. Cicott among the early settlers, as he was a Frenchman, deal¬ ing almost exclusively with the Indians. His mill was really built for their accommodation, but was highly prized by the white men, as it afforded them the opportunity of having their corn ground near home.

Passage source: History of Cass County, Indiana, published 1878.

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 Jefferson Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Engineering Aggregates Corp. Plt. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Logansport Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Logansport Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Logansport Sand & Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$10,000	Tree down onto a house on Ridgeview Way. Tree size and health is unknown.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$10,000	Power lines down on the 6700 block of W US 24.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Several trees downed on powerlines.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Emergency management officials reported trees down in Georgetown.

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Lake Cicott	1.9 miles	9
Kenneth	2.2 miles	9
Clymers	3.7 miles	10
Dunkirk	6.0 miles	9
Logansport	7.9 miles	10
Royal Center	8.6 miles	9
Verona	8.8 miles	10
Lucerne	10.2 miles	9

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 Georgetown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q593214	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 435024. 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.