Pennville, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47327. It stands on Hiser Drain. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonburg quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Pennville within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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 Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

10,460 words on this township

History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872 names this settlement in its chapter on Jackson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

At a later period, Pennsylvania Germans began to settle in this part of the township; and the immigration continued many years. John Huntsinger, Frederick Waltz, Henry Leonard, and others, natives of Pa., came from Ohio, about the year 1820. Huntsinger settled a mile north-west of Germantown, and the others near the town. Joseph Schock, from Pa., about 1823, settled near the south-west corner of the town, and still resides on the farm, a bachelor, at the age of 73 years. He bought of the Shortridges. George Shaffer settled south of the town, and died about twelve years ago. Charles Morris, lives. Morris now resides in town. About the years 1837 and 1838, came Jacob, Michael, and Wm. Gipe, and Jacob Sowers, Jacob Heist, and still later, Mahlon Boughner. Peter Jamison, in 1838, settled 2 miles east of town ; was a school teacher, moved to town, and taught the first school in town. He died in Dayton, Ohio, in 1850.

Passage source: History of Wayne County, Indiana, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time : with Numerous Biographical and Family Sketches, published 1872.

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 Jackson Township.

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 Pennville: 1 producer. 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
	Cambridge City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pennville in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2024: 2 flash flood. 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
June 2024	Flash Flood	Pennville	-	Water was reported to be flowing over US-40 near Swallow Road.
November 2017	Flash Flood	Pennville	-	High water was reported flowing across Pennville and Sorber Roads.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
East Germantown	1.4 miles	8
Hiser	1.8 miles	9
Jacksonburg	2.7 miles	9
College Corner	2.7 miles	9
Pinhook	2.9 miles	9
Milton	2.9 miles	8
Cambridge City	3.2 miles	8
Mount Auburn	4.2 miles	8

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 Pennville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7164315	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 441002. 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.