Hillsboro, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Prairie Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47362. It stands on Slo Run. The Survey maps it on the New Castle East quadrangle. It stands 1,086 feet above sea level.

Hillsboro within Henry 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.

1950 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

18,112 words on this township

History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Prairie Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Among the earliest members of Lebanon church were Jesse Mellett and wife, John Miller and wife, Ruth Way man, Mrs. Whittaker, Mrs. A. Yeach, Mr. Jones and wife. The early ministers were Jesse Mellett, Charles Mellett, John Baldridge, T. S. Lyons and Ara Cole.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884.

Keeder, and Hugh D., deceased. Mr. Hazelton died Jan. 9, 1880. He was a member of the Hunkard church, as is also his wife. Mrs. Hazelton has two daughters bj her former marriage - Hannah, wife of William H. Garrett, and Phoebe, wife of Nathan Garrett. The farm contains 18 J acres of line land. Mrs. Hazelton is an energetic woman and a good manager, and superintends the business affairs of the farm.

Franklin B. Miller is a native of Bedford County, Pa., born Feb. 28, 1852. He learned the miller's trade when eighteen years of age, and in 1874 came to Indiana (Wayne County) ; from there went to Illinois and remained six months; then returned to Wayne County; thence to Delaware County, and in 1877 to Hew Castle, Henry County. He rented the Johnson & Fisher mills four years, and then bought an interest in the Eagle Mills, on Buck Creek, Luray. He is a practical miller, understanding every detail of the business. He does a general custom and exchange business, making a good grade of fiour. Mr. Miller was married in 1876 to Ella Cannaday, daughtgr of George H. '^annaday, of Delaware County, Ind. They have two children - Ora and Jennie. Mr. Miller has been Postmaster of Luray since May 2, 1881.

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 Prairie Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

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 Hillsboro: 1 past producer. 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
	Mt. Summit Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
June 2008	Flash Flood	Hillsboro	1 killed, $10,000	Heavy rains swelled small streams and creeks in Henry County. A woman died attempting to cross a flooded bridge over Slow Run Creek, also known as Colony Creek, on County Road 250 North near Hillsboro Road around 5:30 AM EST. Her vehicle submerged and swept downstream about a mile.

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Van Nuys	1.3 miles	11
Messick	1.6 miles	11
Foley	2.5 miles	11
Fayne Siding	3.1 miles	11
Ashland	3.2 miles	11
Belmont	3.3 miles	11
New Castle	3.4 miles	11
Mount Summit	3.8 miles	13

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 Hillsboro	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688423	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 436215. 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.