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Highwoods, Indiana

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46228. It stands on Highwood Branch. The Survey maps it on the Indianapolis West quadrangle.

Highwoods within Marion County

On record in Highwoods

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 within a mile 6 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

15,135 words on this township

History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 15,135 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 Highwoods: 2 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Standard Materials Corp S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
U. S. Allied Aggregates, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Highwoods in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2009Thunderstorm WindHighwoods$2,000Power lines were reported down near 61st Street and Michigan Road.
July 2020HailHighwoods-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Rocky Ripple0.6 miles19
Spring Hills0.8 miles19
Shooters Hill1.0 miles19
Knollton Heights1.0 miles19
Woodstock1.2 miles19
Wynnedale1.2 miles19
Crows Nest1.2 miles19
Mapleton1.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 436177. 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.