Moonlight, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Steuben Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46779. The Survey maps it on the Ashley quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Moonlight within Steuben County

On record in Moonlight

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.

Pleasant Lake Depotlisted 2001 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1942 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

16,431 words on this township

History of Steuben County, Indiana, Together with... Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Steuben Township covers geography, description, first settlers, first dwellings, schools and orchards, steubenville, steubenville, junior.

Read the chapter on Steuben Township - 16,431 words.

Fires near this place

6 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Moonlight between 2003 and 2005, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 June 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 April 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Moonlight: 3 producers. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fremont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
State Line Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Viking Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pleasant Lake	1.0 miles	14
Holiday Woods	3.4 miles	14
Steubenville	3.6 miles	14
Angola	3.9 miles	15
Hudson	4.4 miles	14
Salem Center	5.8 miles	13
Russels Point	6.0 miles	14
Forest Park	6.1 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 Moonlight	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27988932	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 439385. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.