BlockMilton, Indiana
8 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 47357. It stands on Milton Drain. The Survey maps it on the Cambridge City quadrangle. 455 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 928 feet above sea level.
On record in Milton
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
Beechwood (Isaac Kinsey House)listed 1975
Population over time
2 figuresMilton fell from 490 to 455 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 490 | |
| 2020 | 455 | -35 (-7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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
- 1960 USGS Cambridge City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
22,771 words on this townshipHistory of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
This township lies in the south-east part of "Wayne county, and is one of the six townships into which the county was divided in 1817 by the county commissioners after the adoption of the state constitution of 1816. Its length, east and west, is 7 miles ; its breadth 6 miles, containing an area of about 42 square miles.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.
The earliest settlements in the township are believed to have been in the north part. Thomas Symonds settled December 6, 1811, about a mile north of where Milton now stands, having cut his way through the woods for 12 miles. There was no other settler near. His widow, still living, says, that, for six weeks after their arrival, she did not see the face of a white woman. Mr. Symonds was from IST. C, and had stopped a few months at Cox's settlement, where Eichmond now is. His family consisted of himself and his wife. They were much annoyed by Indian beggars, and by wild animals that approached their cabin by night and by day. In the spring of 1812, from fear of the Indians, they, like other settlers, left their home, and sought safety in the settlements in the vicinity of the present city of Richmond, where they remained until after the pacification of the Indians in 1814. They were obliged to go some 15 miles to mill, until Mr. Symonds himself built a mill, which was completed late in the autumn of 1814, or early in 1815. His wife once made one of these trips to mill, it being deemed safer than to remain at home alone. He died September 30, 1865. His wife is still living at Spiceland, Henry county.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.
In the north-east part of the township were some who settled there about the same time as Symonds in the northwest part. After the treaties of peace with the Indians, rapid progress was made in the settlement of the township.
Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.
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 60 more 60 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 Milton: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milton in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Milton | $15,000 | A tornado touched down near Indiana State Route One, damaging a 40- by 120-foot barn. The tornado also downed several trees and power lines. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $11,000 | Eleven trees were knocked down thoughout Wayne County. |
| September 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| July 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $5,000 | Trees and power lines knocked down. |
| June 2008 | Hail | Milton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $4,000 | Several trees were downed in the Milton area. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Milton | $3,000 | no account filed |
| April 2018 | Hail | Milton | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Milton | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge City | 1.9 miles | 8 | |
| East Germantown | 1.9 miles | 8 | |
| Mount Auburn | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Pennville | 2.9 miles | 9 | |
| Dublin | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Hiser | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Beesons | 4.7 miles | 9 | |
| Jacksonburg | 5.2 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 Milton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3281074 | 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 439257. 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.