BlockLiber, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47371. It stands on Golf Brook. The Survey maps it on the Portland quadrangle. It stands 928 feet above sea level.
On record in Liber
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Jonas Votaw Houselisted 2004 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1915 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
38,791 words on this townshipHistorical Hand-atlas, Illustrated : Containing ... Twelve Farm Maps, and History of Jay County, Indiana, published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Wayne Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
In 1848 he was actively interested in aiding the establishment of a school near Portland, Jay county, Indiana, for the higher education of all classes of persons irrespective of race, and known as " Liber College," to which he gave his earnest support as an officer of the institution, in means and counsel, and it was instrumental in effecting much good, and reflected credit on the county.
Passage source: Historical Hand-atlas, Illustrated : Containing ... Twelve Farm Maps, and History of Jay County, Indiana, published 1881.
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 Wayne Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
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 Liber: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| College Corner | 0.5 miles | 15 | |
| Portland | 1.9 miles | 15 | |
| Collett | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Antioch | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Brice | 3.9 miles | 15 | |
| Bluff Point | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Blaine | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Boundary City | 5.1 miles | 14 |
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 Liber | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6540516 | 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 437813. 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.