BlockMoores Hill, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Sparta Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47032. It lies near Johnson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Dillsboro quadrangle. 675 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 991 feet above sea level.
On record in Moores Hill
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 2 records
Carnegie Hall of Moores Hill Collegelisted 1994
Moore's Hill United Methodist Churchlisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresMoores Hill grew from 597 to 675 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 | 597 | |
| 2020 | 675 | +78 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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
- 1958 USGS Dillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Dillsboro quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
2,127 words on this townshipHistory of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Sparta Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Samuel B. and Winslow Wood emigrated from New York state in 1817. Jonathan Vail emigrated from New York state in 1817, and died in 1847. Stephen Inman came from the state of Maine in 1817. Nathaniel Richman came from the state of New York in 1818, and died in 1859. Gilbert Givan came from Maryland in 1818, and died in 1868. Adam Moore and family came from Maryland in 1818, and settled on the site of the town of Moores Hill. John C. Moore, his son, who was bom in Maryland in 1810, died in 1871. Samuel Marshall was bom in London, England, and was married in New York City and in 1818 settled in Sparta township.
Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.
In the fall of 1818 a wagon road was cut through the woods from what is now Aurora to Moores Hill and to the Ripley county line. The first natural death is thought to have occurred in the township was that of Riley Truitt, which occurred in the year 1818. Adam Moore erected a grist-mill soon after he settled. It was a tread-wheel worked by animal power. A saw-mill was erected on North Hogan in 1830, by Lyman Smith., In 1828 James Hayes erected a grist-mill on South Hogan, in the wester part of the township, which he operated for about fifteen years, when in an attempt to cut the ice from the water wheel he fell and was crushed to death. The mill was after¬ wards operated by Joseph Bossong and Jacob Zapp. One of the first steam mills in the county was erected by Phineas King in the year 1839, and was run together with a woolen factory, which had previously been run by a tread wheel. It was situated on King's ridge near Chesterville, After King's death the machinery was removed to Milan. William Bt Miller, in the year 1839, erected the mills known as "Miller's Mills," in the southern part of the township on South Hogan. The first tan yard was started in 1817 by Samuel and Winslow Wood.
Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.
The village of Moores Hill is the seat of the college by that name, and is finely located in the northwestern part of Sparta township and close to tnc Indian boundary line that separates Dearborn county from Ripley. It is on the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad and is an active wide-awake college town, with a population in 1910. of four hundred and twenty-four. It has a successfully operated creamery and several stores and a prosperous bank.
Passage source: History of Dearborn County Indiana, published 1915.
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 Sparta Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
Storms near this place
9 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moores Hill in 9 storm reports between 1993 and 2011: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1993 | Hail | Moores Hill | $500,000 | no account filed |
| December 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moores Hill | $10,000 | Trees were knocked down across the county. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moores Hill | $3,000 | Trees and large tree limbs were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moores Hill | $3,000 | Trees were downed. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moores Hill | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moores Hill | $1,000 | Trees were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moores Hill | $1,000 | no account filed |
| May 2002 | Hail | Moores Hill | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moores Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sparta | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Cold Springs | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Chesterville | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Manchester | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Mount Sinai | 5.3 miles | 19 | |
| Kyle | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Dillsboro Station | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Dillsboro | 6.8 miles | 10 |
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 Moores Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3259591 | 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 439411. 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.
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.