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Mahalasville, Indiana

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46151. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Morgantown quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Mahalasville within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

36,316 words on this township

Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical, published 1884 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Washington Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Washington Township - 36,316 words.

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahalasville in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2018Flash FloodMahalasville$5,000Low Gap Road and South Conservation Club Road was reported to be flooded due to heavy thunderstorm rainfall. State Road 37 was also flooded.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Taggart Crossing2.4 miles18
Painted Hills2.6 miles16
Laveianan Court4.4 miles18
Fewell Rhoades4.6 miles18
Prather5.1 miles18
Champlin Meadows5.1 miles18
Maxwell5.3 miles18
Wolff5.3 miles18

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 MahalasvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6732918The 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 438476. 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.