BlockRidgeview, Indiana
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Peru Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46970. The Survey maps it on the Peru quadrangle.
On record in Ridgeview
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 8 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Peru High School Historic Districtlisted 2013 · 0.4 miles away
Brownell Block/Senger Dry Goods Company Buildinglisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
Miami County Courthouselisted 2008 · 0.6 miles away
Shirk-Edwards Houselisted 1995 · 0.6 miles away
James Omar Cole Houselisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away- Peru Westside Historic Districtlisted 2023 · 0.6 miles away
- Peru Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 2018 · 0.7 miles away
- Godfroy's Addition Historic Districtlisted 2023 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1951 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Peru quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
9,898 words on this townshipHistory of Miami County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Peru Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The most important addition to the city since 1900 is unquestionably that of Oakdale, consisting of 1,058 lots, the plat of which was filed on Janu;iry 27, 1906, by the Oakdale Improvement Compan.y. A full account of this addition and the manner in which its lots were placed on the market will lie found in Chapter XIII of this work. On March 28, 1901, the city council passed an ordinance annexing to the city all the ad.ioining acKlitions except Ridgeview and South Peru, both of which were incorporated as independent towns.
Passage source: History of Miami County, Indiana : a Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests, published 1914.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeview between 2003 and 2005, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 30 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
| 26 February 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ridgeview: 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kickapoo Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Miami Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Precision Ceramics Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Plant | ||
| Comersford Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Kickapoo Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Kratzer Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgeview in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ridgeview | $20,000 | Emergency management officials reported a barn roof was blown off at County Road 250 North and State Route 19. Damage is estimated at $20,000. |
| March 2024 | Hail | Ridgeview | $1,500 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Ridgeview | - | A storm survey and eyewitness reports indicated a brief touchdown on the north side of Peru, IN. Damage to shingles and sheeting of a roof was noted at a medical center along with downed large tree limbs. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Ridgeview | - | Golf ball size hail was reported at the intersection of US-31 and US-24. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Ridgeview | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peru | 0.6 miles | 13 | |
| Oakdale | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| South Peru | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hidden Hills | 1.8 miles | 13 | |
| Park View Heights | 1.9 miles | 13 | |
| Flora | 2.3 miles | 13 | |
| Wells | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Doyle | 3.2 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 446707. 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.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
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.