Newville Center, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Newville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46785. The Survey maps it on the Hicksville quadrangle.

Newville Center within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hicksville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

614 words on this township

History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Newville Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Newville Township - 614 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 Newville Center: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Krafft Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Spencerville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newville Center in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 1 flood, 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Newville Center	-	Law enforcement reported roofing from a barn was blown off. Several power lines were also reported down, but unknown if from the wind or debris falling on them.
June 2015	Flood	Newville Center	-	Numerous roads were impacted by high water for an extended time as several rounds of rain moved through the area. Flooding was noted in a neighborhood on the southeast side of Auburn. Water was flowing from storm drains and overflowing ponds, with fish swimming down the road.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Orangeville	2.1 miles	11
Newville	2.5 miles	11
Saint Joe	3.8 miles	10
Spencerville	5.3 miles	10
Concord	6.2 miles	10
Stafford Center	6.5 miles	11
Butler	8.3 miles	11
Moore	8.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122565264

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 440156. 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.