Nine Mile, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pleasant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46809. The Survey maps it on the Ossian quadrangle. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Nine Mile within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Ossian quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

4,906 words on this township

History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880; Valley of the Upper Maumee River, with Historical Account of Allen County and the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana, published 1889 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Pleasant Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Pleasant Township - 4,906 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Nine Mile: 5 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Sphalerite and Fluorite Occurrence Z79	Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Sulfur	Occurrence	Fluorite, Sphalerite
Unnamed Fluorite Occurrence	Fluorine-Fluorite	Occurrence	Fluorite
Ardmore Stone Plant #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ft. Wayne Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ardmore Sand Plant #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brudi #1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Brudi #4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Midwest Aggregates Pit 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nine Mile in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 3 hail, 2 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
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Nine Mile	-	Amateur radio operators reported a semi was blown onto it side.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Nine Mile	-	Trained spotters reported several tree limbs down along a with a four foot wide area of corn being laid down.
March 2016	Hail	Nine Mile	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Nine Mile	-	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Nine Mile	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Yoder	4.0 miles	10
Manor Woods	4.0 miles	10
Ellison	4.0 miles	10
Forest Ridge	4.1 miles	10
Waynedale	4.2 miles	14
Parkway Hills	4.2 miles	10
Rolling Hills	4.3 miles	10
Ellisville	4.3 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 Nine Mile	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7038367	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 440178. 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.