BlockMarco, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stafford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47443. The Survey maps it on the Sandborn quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Sandborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Sandborn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
684 words on this townshipEarly History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Stafford Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The first log cabin was built by the oldest settler, Uncle Josiah Carrico, on the farm where James Burris now lives. Old Grandfather Benjamin Stafford was born on the Monongahela river, in Pennsylvania, and married Miss Eve Caress, ol Kentucky, and they came to Greene county in the year 1819. Mr. Stafford and wife had eleven children, six boys and five girls, and the mother died many years ago. The old gentleman lived to see his youngest child married. He died in the year 1842, and was buried at the old homestead, Stafford Cemetery, near Marco. His son Benjamin Stafford, jr., was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, and came to Greene county, Indiana, in 1818, and settled on Black creek, just east of Marco. He married Miss Martha Ball, daughter of Isaiah Ball, who died in the army many years ago. Mrs. Martha Stafford had five children and died in the year 1844. Mr. Stafford afterwards married Miss Nancy Ann Page, and they live at home, on a good farm in Stafford township, about three miles northwest of Marco. Mr. Stafford is a good, substantial farmer and a good citizen in his neighborhood, and Has. made two very good farms besides his present homestead farm . He first made the farm where young George Morgan now lives, and afterwards he made the Burch farm and his home farm of near one . hundred acres. Mr. Stafford also built the first little water mill on Black creek and sold that mill to our old social friend Druery B. Boyd. Honorable Druery B. Bo3'd sold out and moved to Illinois, and died several 3'earis ago.
Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana ..., published 1875.
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
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Marco: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mize Dredge | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Upper Block Coal Underclay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Upper Block Coal Underclay | Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Water, Free | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marco in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2018 | Flash Flood | Marco | $500 | The 911 Center reported State Road 59 closed near County Road 500 South due to high water from heavy rainfall. |
| July 2012 | Hail | Marco | - | no account filed |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marco | - | 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.
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 Marco | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6757383 | 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 438599. 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.