BlockJonestown, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Helt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47842. The Survey maps it on the Saint Bernice quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 1947 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paris quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Saint Bernice quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Saint Bernice quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,817 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Helt Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Helt Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonestown in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Jonestown | $7,000 | Trees were downed between County Roads 1050 South and 1150 South near County Road 75 West due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Bernice | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| West Clinton | 1.5 miles | 17 | |
| Blanford | 3.2 miles | 17 | |
| Bono | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Sandytown | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Centenary | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Klondyke | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Randall | 4.6 miles | 17 |
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 Jonestown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6275416 | 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 437106. 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.
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.