Ridertown, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Knox Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47336. The Survey maps it on the Pennville quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Ridertown within Jay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pennville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ridertown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	Inman Tile Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jay 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
Dunkirk	4.2 miles	11
Pennville	5.1 miles	11
Greene	5.9 miles	12
Pony	6.0 miles	12
Redkey	6.7 miles	11
Center	6.9 miles	12
Como	7.2 miles	12
Balbec	7.2 miles	9

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 Ridertown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7332651	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 441989. 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.