Lyonsville, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jennings Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47331. The Survey maps it on the Brownsville quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Lyonsville within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

4,626 words on this township

History of Fayette County, Indiana: Containing a History of the Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies, Etc., Etc. .., published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Jennings Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

It will be noticed that the earliest purchases made were in 1811 and 1812, the lands lying in the northern half of the township, excepting one in Section 3, south of Alquina. While this is true the first settlement effected was on land not entered until 1814. Thomas Simpson, Sr., wJio is credited with being the first to settle within the present limits of the subdivision, was a native of Maryland, born in 1778. He subsequently settled in North Carolina, where he was married to Sarah Mabry or Marberry, and in after years removed to the vicinity of Clinch River, in Tennessee. About the year 1805 or 1806, having in view the purchase of land in the Territory of Indiana, he removed to the vicinity of Harrison, Ohio, and was there awaiting the further preparation of lands for market. Here he lived several years, and when one Vantrees, a Government Surveyor, was making up the party for the survey of the " Twelve-Mile Purchase," Simpson joined them to act as hunter for the party. He accompanied them and remained until the survey was completed (which was in progress in 1808 -09), traveling and hunting over the country from Michigan to the Ohio River. On the approach of winter tho party built a log-cabin by a spring on the northeast quarter of Section 23 (Township 14, Range 13), which they occupied during the survey of that region of the country.

Passage source: History of Fayette County, Indiana: Containing a History of the Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies, Etc., Etc. .., published 1885.

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 Jennings Township.

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 Lyonsville: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
	Fayette Co. Hwy. Dept. - Own Crews	Stone	Producer
	Park Road Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fayette 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Springersville	0.3 miles	10
Alquina	2.7 miles	11
Waterloo	4.4 miles	10
Connersville	4.7 miles	9
Huber	5.1 miles	9
Everton	6.5 miles	11
Tyner Crossing	6.5 miles	9
Harrisburg	7.1 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.

Wikipedia article on Lyonsville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6709813	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 438443. 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.