Plato, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bloomfield Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46761. It lies near The Knob. The Survey maps it on the Mongo quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Plato within LaGrange County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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.

1947 USGS Mongo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Mongo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Mongo quadrangle1:24000

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 Plato: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Henschen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Lagrange Co. Hwy. Dept.	Stone	Producer

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plato in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2020: 4 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
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Plato	-	Two semi trucks blown over on US-20.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Plato	-	Several trees down. Estimated 12 inch diameter.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Plato	-	Local officials reported trees were blown down on East County Road 175 North.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Plato	-	Emergency management officials reported utility lines and poles down at County Road 600 East and 100 South.

Every storm recorded in LaGrange 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
Mongo	4.0 miles	13
Brushy Prairie	4.5 miles	15
Lagrange	4.5 miles	14
Valentine	4.6 miles	12
Woodruff	4.8 miles	14
Northwood	4.8 miles	14
Ontario	4.9 miles	14
Woodland Hills	5.3 miles	14

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 Plato	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7202410	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 441228. 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.