BlockNewark, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Beech Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47459. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1908 USGS Bloomfield quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Freedom quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
733 words on this townshipEarly History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875 names this settlement in its chapter on Beech Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Mr. John Bryan was married about forty-five years ago, to Miss Mary A. Turley, and afterwards made a good farm and now lives on it, one and a half miles northwest of Newark. - Mr. Bryan and wife have had nine children - one boy and eight girls.
Passage source: Early History of Greene County, Indiana : As Taken from the Official Records, and Compiled from Authentic Recollection, by Pioneer Settlers ... Including Brief Sketches of Pioneer Families ..., published 1875.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Newark: 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| W. C. Hargis Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Deposit No. 8 | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Deposit No. 8 | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Prospect |
Storms near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newark in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newark | $1,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed a tree near the intersection of Calvertville Road and Newark Road. |
| April 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Newark | $1,000 | A tree of unknown size was downed near the intersection of Bland Road and Camp Branch Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Newark | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| McVille | 4.0 miles | 24 | |
| Solsberry | 4.1 miles | 15 | |
| Calvertville | 5.2 miles | 15 | |
| Tulip | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Hendricksville | 5.5 miles | 24 | |
| Ridgeport | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Tanner | 7.7 miles | 15 | |
| Park | 8.1 miles | 15 |
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 Newark | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7016581 | 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 440132. 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.
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.