BlockRainsville, Indiana
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Pine Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47918. The Survey maps it on the Pine Village quadrangle. 28 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 659 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Pine Village quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
73,342 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Pine Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Pine Township - it names this place 3 more 3 times.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Ford | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Brisco | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hooker Corner | 2.7 miles | 9 | |
| Pine Village | 4.0 miles | 9 | |
| Chatterton | 4.1 miles | 8 | |
| Carbondale | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Winthrop | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Mudlavia Springs | 5.5 miles | 10 |
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 Rainsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3417854 | 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 441748. 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.