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Halls Corners, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46743. The Survey maps it on the Woodburn North quadrangle.

Halls Corners within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

5,970 words on this township

History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880; Valley of the Upper Maumee River, with Historical Account of Allen County and the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Springfield Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Springfield Township - 5,970 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 Halls Corners: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Krafft Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Spencerville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Allen 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
Georgetown0.9 miles11
Harlan4.7 miles11
Cuba6.0 miles11
Bluecast6.0 miles11
Grabill6.4 miles11
Hursh6.5 miles11
Woodburn8.0 miles11
Milan Center8.3 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.

Wikidata item Q5643146The 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 435622. 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.