BlockNew Lancaster, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46036. The Survey maps it on the Windfall quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 11 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Windfall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
2,603 words on this townshipHistory of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Madison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The southern division of Madison township was opened up for settle¬ ment about 1830, being at that time included in Hamilton county, while the northern sections formed a part of the Indian reserve and were not placed on the market for a number of years afterward. This necessarily meant that the southern lands were settled first, and indeed in the year 1836 there were not many people living there: James Shaw, Henry Eytchison, Pleasant Allman, and Henry Hobbs. Shaw came from Rush county, and located two miles south of the village of New Lancaster. Eytchison came from North Carolina, and took a claim in section 17. He later moved to Madison county. Allman located in the southeast corner of the township, and was the first there. He came from Marion county. Hobbs was a Virginian, and a man of first quality. He was once a candidate for probate judge. Absalom Hobbs, brother, came a year later and entered a tract of land in section 27. He ran for the office of sheriff in 1846, but was so unfortunate as to belong to the weaker party.
Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.
Wright. The Goings located near the Hamilton county line. Wright came from North Carolina, where he left his family while he investigated the land of Tipton county. He selected a claim on section 22, on which he built a small cabin. He burned the first brick in the township and erected the first brick house in the county on his farm in 1848. Other of the settlers who came early were : Henry Harbit, a Kentuckian, who located a short distance south of New Lancaster; Reuben Harvey, in the eastern part, and William Carr.
Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.
In 1838 two brothers, Newton and Carter Jackson, came in with their families and settled near New Lancaster, the former in section 19 and the latter in section 20. They were natives of Kentucky, but left that state in an early day and settled in Wayne county near the city of Richmond. At the organization of Tipton county in 1844, Newton Jackson took an active part and was elected as the first clerk. Carter Jackson was elected as the first representative to the state Legislature in 1845.
Passage source: History of Tipton County Indiana, published 1914.
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 Madison Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lancaster in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 2 tornado, 2 hail, 1 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 2007 | Tornado (EF1) | New Lancaster | $32,000 | A large barn and two outbuildings were damaged due to an EF1 tornado. This is a continuation of the Hamilton County EF2 tornado. |
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | New Lancaster | $5,000 | At 1605EST, this EF-1 tornado touched down a half mile south-southwest of Atlanta. The tornado tracked through the town of Atlanta, producing damage to structures in town. At 1607EST, the tornado path crossed into south-central Tipton County and ended to the east of Cicero Creek, just north of the Hamilton-Tipton County line at 1608EST. Mainly trees were damaged in Tipton County. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Lancaster | $2,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree and utility lines. |
| March 2024 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | New Lancaster | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Elwood | 2.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hobbs | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Curtisville | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Windfall | 8.5 miles | 11 | |
| Tipton | 8.7 miles | 9 | |
| Jacksons | 10.9 miles | 9 | |
| Nevada | 11.7 miles | 10 | |
| East Union | 13.4 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 New Lancaster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q27988864 | 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 440071. 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.