Pontiac, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47837. It stands on Pell Brook. The Survey maps it on the Brazil East quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Pontiac 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.

1950 USGS Brazil East quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Brazil East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Pontiac: 6 producers, 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
C & F Shale Pit 1	Clay, Stone	Producer
Cardonia Pit	Clay, Coal	Past Producer
Indiana Clay Sales Pit	Coal, Clay	Past Producer
S. L. Turner Coal & Clay Pit	Clay, Coal	Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plants #'s 3 & 4	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Irwin Clay Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Logan Clay and Shale Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
C & F Shale Pit 2	Clay	Producer
E and E Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
S.L. Turner Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Carbon	0.5 miles	14
Wickville	1.3 miles	14
Mechanicsburg	1.8 miles	14
Cardonia	2.0 miles	14
Benwood	2.0 miles	14
Perth	2.3 miles	14
Calcutta	2.8 miles	14
Shady Lane	3.2 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 Pontiac	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7228206	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 441432. 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.