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Mud Center, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in Perry Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47712. It stands on Carpentier Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Franklin quadrangle.

Mud Center within Vanderburgh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

In the county-history sources

4,198 words on this township

History of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, from Earliest Times to the Present; with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Etc, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Perry Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Perry Township - 4,198 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mud Center: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Evansville MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vanderburg Co. Hwy. Dept.StoneProducer

Every working recorded in Vanderburgh 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Red Bank1.1 miles16
Cypress2.9 miles16
Belknap3.7 miles16
Vaughan3.8 miles16
Evansville4.1 miles18
Kasson4.2 miles19
Harwood4.3 miles18
Kratzville5.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 439796. 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.