BlockMongo, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Springfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46761. The Survey maps it on the Mongo quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
On record in Mongo
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
Olde Store (John O'Ferrell Store)listed 1975
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1947 USGS Mongo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Mongo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Mongo quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
799 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Springfield Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Springfield Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
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 Mongo: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Sand & Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mongo in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mongo | $15,000 | Downed powerlines on SR 120 between CR 110 E and CR 900. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mongo | - | Amateur radio operators reported a large tree blocking State Route 3, just south of Mongo. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Mongo | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Mongo | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Brushy Prairie | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Plato | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Greenfield Mills | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Wall Lake | 5.5 miles | 15 | |
| Ontario | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Mount Pisgah | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| River Oaks | 6.9 miles | 14 |
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 Mongo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6899528 | 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 439324. 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.