Millville, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Liberty Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47362. It stands on Bat Run. The Survey maps it on the New Castle East quadrangle. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Millville within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS New Castle East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,755 words on this township

Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871 names this settlement in its chapter on Liberty Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The aggregate value of the farms and improvements of Libcm township to-day exceeds that of the farms of any other township of the county, and the evidence of thrift and "farming for profit" arc nowhere mare generally visible than in Liberty township. Four villages have been projected in the township -Millville, Ashland, Petersburg, and Chicago, though it is presumed that the proprietors of the two last named, if still Living, have long since abandoned the hope of seeing them outstrip their namesakes. Under the new turnpike law, many miles of turnpike have sprung into existence, and to-day the

Passage source: Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871.

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 Liberty Township.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ashland	2.8 miles	11
Corwin	3.5 miles	11
Pierson Station	4.2 miles	11
New Lisbon	4.3 miles	11
Messick	4.4 miles	11
Mooreland	5.0 miles	11
Hillsboro	5.2 miles	11
Belmont	5.2 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 Millville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2056235	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 439249. 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.