BlockJohnsonville, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Steuben Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47993. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,815 words on this townshipCounties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883 names this settlement in its chapter on Steuben Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Johnson, by -which union they had seven children - Clay. Oscar T., Laura E., Clarissa J., Edgar (deceased), Eugene and .Jessie. Mr. Mitchell resides three-fourths of a mile northwest of .Johnsonville. on his 900-acre farm (having 160 acres of timber one and a half miles southeasi). Of this land, 660 acres are well cultivated and drained, being adapted to wheat, corn, hay and oats, and all but tweuly acres are fenced; he gives attention to raising cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, particularly the former. Mr. Mitchell has a well improved home, having a conifortable dwelling, commodious stables, windmill, etc. He is a member of the Methodist Church and a public-spirited citizen; his family was among the first white settlers iu this region
Passage source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana : Historical and Biographical, published 1883.
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 Steuben Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Johnsonville: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hunt Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Johnsonville in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | $8,000 | Trees were downed along County Road 700 West, south of Marshfield, due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A home near the interestion of County Roads 700 West and 650 South sustained minor roof damage due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Johnsonville | $1,000 | Tree downed near the intersection of County Road 700W and Galloway Chapel Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marshfield | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| State Line | 3.0 miles | 19 | |
| Hedrick | 5.1 miles | 9 | |
| Sloan | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Foster | 5.6 miles | 11 | |
| Old Town | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| West Lebanon | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Olin | 6.2 miles | 11 |
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 Johnsonville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3183012 | 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 437068. 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.