BlockMcCoy, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47240. The Survey maps it on the Greensburg quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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 Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
3,328 words on this townshipHistory of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Washington township has two villages marked on the map. The first of these is McCoy, which was platted on August ii, 1871, by J. C. Adams, but this failed to materialize and at present nothing remains to give semblance to a town. Quarry Switch was the point where the switch from Harris connected with the Big Four. At this point the Big Four branches, the Columbus, Hope & Greensburg branch going west and the Michigan branch going south.
Passage source: History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915.
The officers of Washington township are as follow : Trustee, Charles S. Williams;- assessor, Henry C. Snell; advisory board, Dan S. Perry, Joseph B. Kitchen, Charles I. Ainsworth; board of supervisors, P. L. Doles, Oliver A. McCoy and Nathan A'andivier; justices of the peace, William W. Dixon and Thomas W. Hamilton; constables, William Dorsey and Reuben Smalley.
Passage source: History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915.
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
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of McCoy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Point Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knarr Corner | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Middle Branch | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Smiths Crossing | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Mechanicsburg | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Slabtown | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Greensburg | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Kingston | 4.1 miles | 10 | |
| Smyrna | 4.5 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 438817. 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.