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McDaniel, Indiana

18 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 Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martinsville quadrangle. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

McDaniel within Morgan County

On record in McDaniel

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The old settler, Reuben Stepp, bought land on Section 21 in 1835, and became a prominent resident of the township He also bought a small tract on Section 6 in 1836. William Stewart bought on Section 2 in 1837, and Henry Hicks on the same section the same year. George Downey obtained a tract on the same section in 1836, and bought more on Section 3 the following year. John M. Thomas and Spencer McDaniel secured farms on Section 4 in 1837. Valentine Hacker and G. Percifield bought in 1836 on Section 6, and Thomas M. Graham in 1837 on Section 8 ; David Wampler and Savoy Stepps secured tracts on Section 9 in 1837 ; and William McMilleh and Joseph Baugh on Section 14 in the same year. William McOay bought on Section 19 during the same year. Michael Fleener bought on Section 85 at an early day. His relatives and himself became prominent in Marion and Benton Townships. John J. Graham became the owner of a piece of land on Seccion 3 in 1838, and George M. Fry on Section 2 in 1839 ; William Woodall bought on Section 36 in 1839. These were all the entries of land prior to 1840. The decade of the forties saw but little increase comparatively in the number of permanent and substantial residents. During the fifties, however, nearly all of the land in the township was bought by men who were, or who became, actual residents of the township. In 1841, the following well-known men resided in the township, and may be called the pioneers of Marion ; Jehu Buckner, who owned land on Sections 6, 7, and 10, and who paid a State and county tax of $13.22, the highest in the township ; Thomas Bates, on Section 15; Absalom Fulford, on Section 4; John Goodwin, on Section 18 ; J. J. and Samuel Graham, on Section 7 ; Abraham Goodsey, on Section 10; Ezekiel Hendrickson, on Sections 22 and 27 ; Thomas Hendrickson, on Section 17; Valentine Hacker, on Section 6, who paid a tax of $9.88 ; Reuben Stepp on Sections 21 and 27; Conrad and Adam Wall, on Section 21, and David Wampler on Section 9.

Passage source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical, published 1884.

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 Washington Township.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of McDaniel: 5 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cardinal Clay Products Inc.ClayProducer
Martinsville MineClay, StoneProducer
Martinsville Brick PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Martinsville PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Thomas Moulding PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Jones Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Martinsville Aggregate DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Morgan Co. Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Morgan County PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working 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
Champlin Meadows0.4 miles18
Laveianan Court1.2 miles18
Martinsville1.3 miles18
Maxwell1.9 miles18
Fewell Rhoades2.3 miles18
Hyndsdale2.3 miles18
Elk2.4 miles18
Prather2.5 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.

Wikidata item Q30625377The 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 438849. 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.