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Lakewood Hills, Indiana

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Center Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47711. The Survey maps it on the Evansville North quadrangle.

Lakewood Hills within Vanderburgh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

In the county-history sources

16,414 words on this township

History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, from Earliest Times to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Etc, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Center Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Center Township - 16,414 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lakewood Hills: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Evansville MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vanderburg Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Vanderburgh 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
Smythe1.3 miles16
Melody Hill1.7 miles18
Knob Hill2.1 miles18
Stringtown2.9 miles18
Evansville2.9 miles18
Erskine Station3.0 miles18
Harwood3.2 miles18
Mechanicsville3.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 437567. 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.