Mahon, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46750. The Survey maps it on the Huntington quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Mahon within Huntington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mahon: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Roanoke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Huntington County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahon in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mahon	$5,000	A tree was down across a road.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Mahon	-	The public reported a 25 foot tall tree was snapped two to three from the ground, landing onto a fence.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mahon	-	Emergency management officials reported the whole upper section of a two foot diameter tree was broken.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mahon	-	Emergency management officials reported power lines down across the road.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mahon	-	Emergency management officials reported a large tree limb was blocking the west bound lanes of US 24, near County Road 600 North.

Every storm recorded in Huntington 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
Roanoke Station	1.3 miles	10
Roanoke	1.7 miles	10
Mardenis	3.0 miles	12
Bowerstown	4.8 miles	12
Simpson	6.0 miles	13
Huntington	7.3 miles	12
Goblesville	7.7 miles	10
Markle	8.2 miles	11

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 Mahon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14688586	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 438478. 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.