Inverness, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Millgrove Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46703. The Survey maps it on the Angola West quadrangle.

Inverness within Steuben County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1941 USGS Angola West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1942 USGS Angola West quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Angola West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Angola West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

9,104 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 Millgrove Township covers geographical and descriptive, lakes, first settlement, orland, john stocker and companions, arrivals in 1835 and 1836.

Read the chapter on Millgrove Township - 9,104 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Inverness: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Garman Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rice Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
State Line Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
State Line Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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
Panama	0.8 miles	16
Nevada Mills	1.9 miles	16
Lake James	2.4 miles	16
Crooked Lake	3.3 miles	16
Potawatomi Inn	3.8 miles	16
Flint	3.9 miles	15
Glen Eden	4.1 miles	16
Orland	4.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 436820. 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.