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Indian Creek Settlement, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47512. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wheatland quadrangle.

Indian Creek Settlement within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

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 Indian Creek Settlement: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
Apex Intrnat Alloys/ Bicknell, IndAluminumUnknown

Every working recorded in Knox 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
Ragsdale1.6 miles14
Johnstown2.7 miles14
Bicknell3.7 miles14
Bruceville4.3 miles15
Wheatland4.9 miles14
Fritchton5.3 miles18
Edwardsport7.6 miles14
Verne7.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 436760. 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.