Hamilton, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46058. It stands on Kilmore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Hamilton within Clinton 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
1961 USGS Frankfort quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

14,518 words on this township

Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

It was originally a part of Ross and Washington Townships. By reference to the township history of the former, it will be seen that the first settlement was made in the vicinity of Rossville, and the latter in the vicinity of Jefferson. Hence, that portion of Clinton "now included within the boundaries of Madison was not settled until a few years later.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.

In 1831, came the following reliable men: Samuel Harper, who located on the John McNutt farm; James Hamilton, on the farm owned by George Old; Jacob Baum, on what is now the. Daniel Baum farm; John Garlmger, on the farm the property off James McDavis; Major Brown, on the Hamilton farm; and William Peters, on the farm where he is still living. The last named gentleman has been longer in the township than any one now living. He has lived beyond man's allotted time, yet, for one of his active

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton County, Indiana, published 1878.

The first religious meetings in the township were held in private fan ilies, and in the woods, according to the custem of the pioneers. The zeal manifested in those early days in attendmg religious meetings is highly commendable. It is greatly to be regretted that this zeal is not possessed by more of the men and women of to-day. A pioneer thought nothing of walking through mud and brush four o five miles to hear a sermon preached, while the men and women of the present find it too exhausting to ride that distance on a good road, and in a comfortable carriage.

Passage source: Combination Atlas Map of Clinton 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 Madison Township - it names this place 6 more 6 times.

Fires near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hamilton in 2005, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Mulberry

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hamilton: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Skiles Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamilton in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 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
April 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Hamilton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Mulberry	2.5 miles	10
Mattix Corner	2.7 miles	10
Cambria	3.4 miles	10
Jefferson	4.7 miles	10
Rossville	5.1 miles	9
Edna Mills	5.7 miles	9
Kilmore	6.0 miles	10
Ellis	6.0 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 Hamilton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5644749	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 435637. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.