Pittsburg, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Tippecanoe Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46923. It stands on Tannery Branch. The Survey maps it on the Delphi quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Delphi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
207 words on this townshipHistory of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Tippecanoe Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Pittsburg is located on the Wabash and dates its settlement to the year 1825. The town of Sleeth is situate in this township, on the Monon rail¬ road. The Associate Presbyterian church was the first church to organize in this township. Other denominations organized in later years. At one time Pittsburg did a large business in produce shipping, had a foundry, a tannery, a woolen-mill, a flouring-mill and a saw-mill. A canal was taken out on the north side of the river, above the dam, and it was used to ship on canal boats the products to Toledo.
Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.
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 Tippecanoe Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Fires near this place
6 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Pittsburg between 2007 and 2008, burning about 9 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 | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 8 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 22 May 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 6 April 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 16 March 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 5 February 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Pittsburg: 3 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Lead, Zinc, Sulfur. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delphi Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Sphalerite Occurrence Z55 | Lead, Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Sphalerite | |
| Munson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Rider Sand and Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Vianco Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pittsburg in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 1 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2008 | Flood | Pittsburg | $500,000 | Flooding occurred along the Tippecanoe River in Carroll County, including west of Delphi, due to heavy rain and snow melt. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pittsburg | $5,000 | A spotter reported trees down on Tecumseh Bend Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delphi | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Sleeth | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Harley Siding | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Harley | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Yeoman | 5.3 miles | 8 | |
| Sandy Beach | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Richey Park | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Gingrich Addition | 6.3 miles | 9 |
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 Pittsburg | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q262266 | 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 441211. 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.
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.




