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Purdy Hill, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Posey Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47834. It stands on Purdy Run. The Survey maps it on the Brazil West quadrangle. It stands 614 feet above sea level.

Purdy Hill 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Purdy Hill: 5 producers, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C & F Shale Pit 1Clay, StoneProducer
Arketex Ceramic Plant #2Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Arketex Ceramic Plants #'s 3 & 4Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Brazil Brick PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Irwin Clay PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Producer
Logan Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Marion Brick Clay and Shale PlantFire Clay (Refractory)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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Twin Beach0.8 miles14
Billtown1.2 miles14
Cloverland1.3 miles14
Staunton1.7 miles17
Turner2.6 miles17
Bee Ridge2.9 miles14
Cottage Hill3.2 miles14
Billville4.4 miles14

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 Purdy HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7261017The 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 441666. 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.