BlockGreen Hill, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Medina Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47906. It stands on Armstrong Creek. The Survey maps it on the Otterbein quadrangle. 125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 653 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1942 USGS Otterbein quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Otterbein quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Otterbein quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
7,119 words on this townshipCounties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Medina Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
ANSON B. McADAMS, one of the enterprising young men of Medina Township, was born at Green Hill, Ind., in 1856. and is a son of Valentine and Eveline McAdams. His youthful days were passed in assisting his parents on the farm and attending the district schools of his neighborhood. On attaining his majoritj', he began farming for himself near Independence, but, in 1878, he began attending Green Hill Seminary, teaching school and reading law. In politics. Mr. McAdams is a stanch Republican. He was married, in 1883, to Miss 'Flora Bailey, a daughter of H. J. and Leah Bailey and a member of the United Brethren Church.
Passage source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883.
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 Medina Township - it names this place 5 more 5 times.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Rock | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Banning Corner | 4.2 miles | 9 | |
| Independence | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Chatterton | 6.9 miles | 8 | |
| Winthrop | 7.2 miles | 9 | |
| Pine Village | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Glen Cliff | 9.9 miles | 9 | |
| Kramer | 10.7 miles | 10 |
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 Green Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3116095 | 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 435401. 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.