New Lisbon, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dudley Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47366. It stands on Coo Run. The Survey maps it on the Lewisville quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

New Lisbon within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1948 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Lewisville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

8,546 words on this township

Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871 names this settlement in its chapter on Dudley Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Dudley of to-day is five and a quarter by six miles in extent, an 1 thus contains about 19,000 acres ; divided into 191 farms, an average of about 103 acres each ; supporting an almost exclusively rural population of 1,348 souls, about 43}., per square mile, divided between 268 families and 267 dwellings. Of this number but 13 are foreigners - less than one per cent, while the natives of the "Old North State" number 126, or nearly ten per cent, of the whole population. The value of the lands and improvements for 1870 was $542,120. The town lots and improvements were valued at $6,300, and the personal property at $249,970, making a total of wealth of $798,590.

Passage source: Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871.

The first election was ordered to be held at the house of Mr. Paul, on Saturday, July 6th, 1822, for the purpose of electing one Justice of the Peace, and William McKimmy was appointed Inspector. William McKimmy and Garnett Hayden were appointed first Overseers of the Poor for Dudley township, and Richard Pearson and Robert Thompson "Fence-viewers." The elections were afterward held at Benjamin Strattan's for a number of years ; about 1840, at Daniel Reynolds' ; then at New Lisbon. Soon two polls were opened - one at New Lisbon, twcnt\ -live years ago, vie witli the world, tlie township bftS Dear thirty mllet of line turnpike, splendid and well drained farms and farm houses that vie with the best.

Passage source: Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871.

Commerce," in 1822, consisted of a very indifferent log cabin, with a wide fire place, flanked on one side by a rude table, where Mrs. Maxwell compounded "red bread," ami on the other by a barrel of whisky and about as m uiy bolts of calico, etc., as coidd be piled upon a chair.

Passage source: Henry County; Past and Present: a Brief History of the County from 1821 to 1871, published 1871.

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 Dudley Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Lisbon in 1 storm report in 2006: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2006	Hail	New Lisbon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Corwin	2.6 miles	11
Straughn	4.0 miles	11
Millville	4.3 miles	11
Pierson Station	4.3 miles	11
Ashland	4.9 miles	11
Belmont	6.1 miles	11
Lewisville	6.2 miles	11
New Castle	7.3 miles	11

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 Lisbon	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7009858	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 440080. 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.