Perkins, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Grant Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47948. The Survey maps it on the Goodland quadrangle.

Perkins within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Goodland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Watseka quadrangle1:100000

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 Perkins: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Lead, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Newton County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Sphalerite and Galena Occurence Z84	Zinc, Lead, Sulfur	Occurrence	Galena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Newton 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
Newton	1.2 miles	9
Goodland	3.7 miles	9
Kentland	4.4 miles	9
Percy Junction	4.7 miles	9
Brook	7.0 miles	9
Foresman	7.9 miles	9
Ade	8.3 miles	9
Effner	8.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 441021. 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.