Oakdale, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Peru Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46970. It stands on Mississinewa River. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle.

Oakdale within Miami County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1951 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

9,898 words on this township

History of Miami County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Peru Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The most important addition to the city since 1900 is unquestionably that of Oakdale, consisting of 1,058 lots, the plat of which was filed on Janu;iry 27, 1906, by the Oakdale Improvement Compan.y. A full account of this addition and the manner in which its lots were placed on the market will lie found in Chapter XIII of this work. On March 28, 1901, the city council passed an ordinance annexing to the city all the ad.ioining acKlitions except Ridgeview and South Peru, both of which were incorporated as independent towns.

Passage source: History of Miami County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1914.

Since the organization of this club it has been an active factor in its efforts tn promote tlie interests of the city of Peru and its people. Its work in bringing new manufacturing enterprises to the Oakdale addition is described in another chapter: the arrangements for the laying of the corner-stone of the new courthouse were made through the club; it has been energetic in campaigns to secure bonuses for new factories, particularly the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad shops: has offered valuable suggestions and assi.sted in the matter of granting franchises to corporations, and while it has sometimes taken the initiative in these matters it has always worked in harmony with but subservient to the city administration.

Passage source: History of Miami County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, 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 Peru Township.

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Oakdale between 2003 and 2005, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
30 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
26 February 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Oakdale: 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Kickapoo Stone Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Miami Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer
Precision Ceramics Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Plant
Comersford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Kickapoo Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kratzer Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Miami 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
Ridgeview	1.3 miles	13
Peru	1.3 miles	13
South Peru	1.6 miles	13
Park View Heights	1.9 miles	13
Hidden Hills	2.5 miles	13
Missisinewa (historical)	2.7 miles	13
Doyle	2.9 miles	13
Flora	3.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 440459. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.