Indian Hills, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46747. The Survey maps it on the Stroh quadrangle.

Indian Hills within Steuben County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1942 USGS Stroh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Stroh quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Stroh quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

9,957 words on this township

History of Steuben County, Indiana, Together with... Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jackson Township covers geography, description, lakes, oldest settled towisship in county, first comers and land entries, naming of township.

Read the chapter on Jackson Township - 9,957 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Indian Hills in 2003, burning about 2 acres 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
13 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Indian Hills: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Line Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Viking Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben 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
Otter Lake	1.3 miles	15
Flint	2.4 miles	15
Wildwood	2.6 miles	13
Salem Center	2.7 miles	13
Westview	2.9 miles	13
Meadow Shores Park	3.3 miles	13
Holiday Woods	4.5 miles	14
Turkey Creek	4.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 451892. 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.