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Pottersville, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Franklin Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47460. It stands on Mills Creek. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle. It stands 636 feet above sea level.

Pottersville within Owen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pottersville: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Spencer DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
W. C. Hargis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Owen County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pottersville in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindPottersville$1,500Tree limbs were downed on a few county roads between Freedom and Spencer due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindPottersville-Limbs were blown down near Pottersville. Time of occurrence is roughly estimated. Damage was reported some time after it occurred.
May 2011HailPottersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owen 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
Adel1.4 miles17
New Hope1.8 miles17
Braysville2.1 miles17
Vilas2.9 miles17
Freedom2.9 miles17
Freeman4.3 miles24
Farmers4.7 miles17
Hancock Corner4.8 miles16

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 PottersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17108884The 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 441507. 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.