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Nevada Mills, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Jamestown Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46703. The Survey maps it on the Angola West quadrangle.

Nevada Mills within Steuben County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

8,705 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 Jamestown Township covers position, geography and topography, lakes, first settlers, first land entries, going to mill under difficulties.

Read the chapter on Jamestown Township - 8,705 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Nevada Mills in 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesBRONSON FD 0000097 - 2019
26 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLAKELAND VFD 0019033 - 2019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Nevada Mills: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Garman PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Rice PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Line Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

8 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nevada Mills in 8 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009FloodNevada Mills$250,000Spotters and emergency management officials reported several areas in and around the Lake Pleasant area seeing flooding as the lake went out of its banks in many areas. This was the result of around four inches of rain falling across the area. Exact damage estimates were not available, but are estimated at $250,000.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindNevada Mills$5,000Trees are down around Lake Pleasant. Some smaller structures damaged as well.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindNevada Mills$1,000Tree limbs down between Lane 230 and CR 450 W near Jimmerson Lake.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNevada Mills-Amateur radio operators reported a tree down onto power lines east of Orland.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindNevada Mills-Emergency management officials reported a tree was blown down just south of Highway 120.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindNevada Mills-Emergency management officials reported trees and debris on US 120 between 300 West and 450 West.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindNevada Mills-A trained spotter reported a tree down onto a house in the Lake Gage area.
April 2018HailNevada Mills-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Inverness1.9 miles16
Panama2.0 miles16
Lake James2.3 miles16
Potawatomi Inn3.5 miles16
Jamestown3.7 miles16
Crooked Lake4.1 miles16
Valley Outlet Center4.2 miles16
Glen Eden4.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 440012. 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.

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.