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Harper, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sandcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47283. The Survey maps it on the Westport quadrangle.

Harper within Decatur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

2,767 words on this township

History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sandcreek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sandcreek Township - 2,767 words.

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
Sardinia2.0 miles11
Westport2.3 miles11
Neff Corner3.5 miles11
Mapleton Corner4.0 miles11
Alert4.6 miles11
Waynesburg6.0 miles11
Letts Corner6.2 miles11
Letts6.3 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 Q18152735The 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 435761. 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.