BlockLochiel, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47944. The Survey maps it on the Wadena quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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
- 1962 USGS Wadena quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,379 words on this townshipProgress of Education in Benton County, Indiana : with an Explanation of the Indiana School System and the Duties of School Officers, Patrons and Pupils, published 1906 names this settlement in its chapter on Union Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
gins, Avho enrolled eighteen pupils. Her early successors were John ^Y. Swan, Sarah Jane Bugbee and Araniuta Cowgill. Miss Bugbee speaks of the building as "a little coop of a house in which one had scarcely room enough to turn around."" The Center school was established about 1S70. The Monty and Meader schools in 1872. the Lochiel school in ISTo. The other houses were built later, the last being the one two miles east of Lochiel, built by George H. Smith who was elected trustee in 1S82. O. B. Jones, H. L. Woodburn, Leroy Hillis, W. H. Isham, W. L. Johnson, Rhoda Savers, Clara Ladd, Peter Pothouse and W. F. Morgan taught for Mr. Smith in 1884-5.
Passage source: Progress of Education in Benton County, Indiana : with an Explanation of the Indiana School System and the Duties of School Officers, Patrons and Pupils, published 1906.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
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 Lochiel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton County Highway Dept. | Stone | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lochiel in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2017 | Tornado (EF0) | Lochiel | - | Spotter reports as well as video footage confirm a tornado touched down near the Benton/White county line and tracked northeast into White county. The tornado remained over open fields in Benton County; however, some minor damage was noted on the northeast corner of a property on N CR 1200 E (east side of the Benton/White Co Line) south of W CR 600 S. A small boat on a trailer was flipped with a small tree being uprooted and small outbuilding destroyed. Wind speeds are estimated at 75 mph, but may have been higher as the strongest winds likely remained over the open fields. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lochiel | - | A tree was blown over near the intersection of 800 E and 400 N. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Lochiel | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wadena | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Barce | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Fowler | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| Gravel Hill | 5.2 miles | 9 | |
| Swanington | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Atkinson | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Earl Park | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Yeagers Curve | 9.1 miles | 9 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q6665113 | 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 438196. 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.