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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.

Pittsburg within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

In the county-history sources

207 words on this township

History 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 2007

Regional 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
22 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
6 April 2008Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
16 March 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
5 February 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Delphi Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z55Lead, Zinc, SulfurOccurrenceSphalerite
Munson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rider Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Vianco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carroll County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2008FloodPittsburg$500,000Flooding occurred along the Tippecanoe River in Carroll County, including west of Delphi, due to heavy rain and snow melt.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPittsburg$5,000A spotter reported trees down on Tecumseh Bend Road due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Carroll 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
Delphi1.5 miles9
Sleeth4.0 miles8
Harley Siding4.6 miles9
Harley4.9 miles9
Yeoman5.3 miles8
Sandy Beach5.7 miles9
Richey Park6.1 miles9
Gingrich Addition6.3 miles9

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 PittsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q262266The 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.