BlockLincolnville, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lagro Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46992. It stands on Back Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lagro quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 14 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.
- 1950 USGS Lagro quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Lagro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Lagro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
412 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Lagro 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 Lagro Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincolnville in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2018: 2 tornado, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2004 | Tornado (F1) | Lincolnville | $75,000 | NWS storm survey team found F1 damage near Lincolnville with two homes heavily damaged and a barn destroyed. The tornado was skipping as it moved along a 2 mile path length and was around 150 yards wide at the widest point. |
| July 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Lincolnville | - | A tornado touched down north of the intersection of E CR 700 S and|S CR 390 E where three trees were uprooted, several tree branches|broken and a roof removed from an outbuilding. The tornado|continued northeast, crossing S America Road where trees were|uprooted and tree limbs broken at a residence where it lifted. |
| July 2018 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | Emergency management officials reported hail to the size of quarters lasted for about 30 seconds. |
| March 2006 | Hail | Lincolnville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| America | 5.3 miles | 12 | |
| Treaty | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| La Fontaine | 6.0 miles | 12 | |
| Lagro | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Wabash | 8.1 miles | 13 | |
| South Haven | 8.3 miles | 13 | |
| Speicherville | 9.2 miles | 13 | |
| Sunnymede | 9.4 miles | 13 |
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 Lincolnville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6551296 | 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 437948. 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.