Greencastle, Indiana

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• Putnam County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 18 shown

• Boulders, Thelisted 1993
• Brick Chapel United Methodist Churchlisted 2003
• Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 1984
• Delta Kappa Epilson Fraternity Houselisted 1996
• East College of DePauw Universitylisted 1975
• Eastern Enlargement Historic Districtlisted 2011
• Forest Hill Cemeterylisted 2015
• Richard M. Hazelett Houselisted 2006
• Alfred Hirt Houselisted 1991
• McKim Observatory, DePauw Universitylisted 1978
• F.P. Nelson Houselisted 1983
• Northwood Historic Districtlisted 2011

Every listing in Putnam County

Greencastle fell from 10,326 to 9,820 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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 Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Greencastle quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
• 1970 USGS Greencastle quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana .., published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Greencastle Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

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

Every working recorded in Putnam County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greencastle in 75 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 40 thunderstorm wind, 29 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

Every storm recorded in Putnam County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 435428. 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.