BlockMarshfield, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Steuben Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47993. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle. 41 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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
- 1958 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
3,815 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Steuben Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Steuben Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Marshfield: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Brown's Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hanging Rock Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hunt Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Marshfield in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flood, 1 hail. 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 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marshfield | $3,000 | Trees, approximately 10 inches in diameter, were downed in this location due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| January 2009 | Flood | Marshfield | $2,500 | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to extensive lowland flooding on the Wabash River during late December and early January, affecting Warren County at and near the Covington river gage. Higher bottomlands also flooded. This flood event is a continuation from December. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marshfield | $2,000 | A tree was reported down due to thunderstorm wind gusts along State Route 263 near County Road 500 West. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marshfield | $1,000 | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Marshfield | $500 | More trees downed. |
| April 2009 | Flood | Marshfield | - | Extensive flooding of lowland and higher bottomlands occurred along the Wabash River east of Foster, Indiana in Warren County, at and near Covington, Indiana in neighboring Fountain County. The river crested twice. The first crest was the highest at 22.2 feet on April 9th, 6.2 feet above flood stage. The secondary crest was at 19.6 feet on the 17th. These readings were obtained at the Covington river gauge. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Marshfield | - | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to extensive lowland flooding on the Wabash River during late December and early January, affecting Warren County at and near the Covington river gage. Higher bottomlands also flooded. This flood event continued into January. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Marshfield | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnsonville | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Old Town | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| West Lebanon | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Sloan | 3.8 miles | 9 | |
| Hedrick | 4.1 miles | 9 | |
| State Line | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Olin | 7.0 miles | 11 | |
| Foster | 7.1 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 Marshfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3295038 | 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 438659. 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.