BlockMechanicsburg, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46050. It stands on Browns Wonder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mechanicsburg quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.
On record in Mechanicsburg
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 1 record
Scotland Bridgelisted 1994
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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
- 1961 USGS Mechanicsburg quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
13,329 words on this townshipEarly Life and Times in Boone County Indiana, published 1861 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
W. W. Trout, one among the clever men of Boone, is living on the old farm of the late H. G. Hazlerigg. He is not an old citizen here, but has lived in the county nearly if not all his life. His wife is one of a pioneer family (Neese).
Passage source: Early Life and Times in Boone County Indiana, published 1861.
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 - it names this place 7 more 7 times.
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 Mechanicsburg: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Midstate Aggregate Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mechanicsburg in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mechanicsburg | $500 | Trees blown down. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Mechanicsburg | - | Thunderstorm hail as large as hen eggs fell across far northern Boone County from Mechanicsburg and east. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Mechanicsburg | - | This report came in from near the intersection of County Roads 200 East and 850 North. |
| June 2004 | Flash Flood | Mechanicsburg | - | no account filed |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mechanicsburg | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pike | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Stringtown | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Elizaville | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Brendan Wood | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Elmwood | 6.4 miles | 11 | |
| Ulen | 6.7 miles | 11 | |
| Northfield Village | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Hazelrigg | 6.9 miles | 9 |
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 Mechanicsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6804600 | 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 438956. 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.