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Otter Creek Junction, Indiana

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Otter Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47805. The Survey maps it on the Rosedale quadrangle. It stands 505 feet above sea level.

Otter Creek Junction within Vigo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Otter Creek Junction: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Standard Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Vigo 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Markles1.4 miles15
North Terre Haute1.4 miles15
Sandcut1.8 miles15
Terre Town2.5 miles17
Burnett2.8 miles15
Dewey2.9 miles17
Spelterville2.9 miles17
Preston3.0 miles15

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 Otter Creek JunctionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7109372The 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 440746. 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.