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Perth, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Dick Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47837. It stands on Fairwood Drain. The Survey maps it on the Brazil West quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Perth within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Perth: 6 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal, Clay, Stone. 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
C & F Shale Pit 1Clay, StoneProducer
Cardonia PitClay, CoalPast Producer
Indiana Clay Sales PitCoal, ClayPast Producer
S. L. Turner Coal & Clay PitClay, CoalProducer
Arketex Ceramic Plants #'s 3 & 4Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
C & F Shale Pit 2ClayProducer
E and E Clay PitClayProducer
Irwin Clay PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Logan Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Marion Brick Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perth in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2008Thunderstorm WindPerth-A large tree was uprooted by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Wickville1.0 miles14
Pontiac2.3 miles14
Carbon2.3 miles14
Cardonia3.1 miles14
Benwood3.4 miles14
Shady Lane3.6 miles14
Bee Ridge3.9 miles14
Mechanicsburg4.0 miles14

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 PerthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7170800The 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 441045. 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.