BlockRockfield, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Rock Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46923. The Survey maps it on the Burrows quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 699 feet above sea level.
On record in Rockfield
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 1 record
District School No. 3listed 1988
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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
- 1962 USGS Burrows quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
229 words on this townshipHistory of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916 names this settlement in its chapter on Rock Creek Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
The town of Rockfield is located in this township, also the town of Burrows. The Wabash railroad runs through this township, and the towns mentioned are situate on this line of railway and on the Ft. Wayne and Northern Indiana traction road. Rockfield has a bank, as has also the town of Burrows. A fine school building is located in Rockfield. The Independ¬ ent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 301 is located in Rockfield and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 495 is located in Burrows. The first saw-mill was erected in 1831 by Emanuel Flood, on Rock creek. Later, on the same site, a flouring-mill was built by John Mullendore in 1848. This mill was known in later years as the "Dougherty" mill.
Passage source: History of Carroll County Indiana, published 1916.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rockfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallace Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockfield in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rockfield | $7,000 | Several trees were reported down near Borrows and Lockport due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rockfield | $5,000 | Barn and Trees down |
| January 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rockfield | $3,000 | Pieces of an aluminum shed was blown off into a field due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. A trampoline was blown a considerable distance into a field. Tree limbs were blown down and one large chunk of tree was blown out as well. Other small trees and limbs were downed as well. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rockfield | $3,000 | A carport was blown into the roadway due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| July 2013 | Flash Flood | Rockfield | $1,000 | High water, due to thunderstorm heavy rainfall, was observed along parts of County Roads 700 North and 175 West, resulting in road closures. |
| July 2007 | Flash Flood | Rockfield | $1,000 | Heavy rains flooded County Road 500 W and Towpath Road. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Rockfield | - | no account filed |
| December 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rockfield | - | 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.
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 Rockfield | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7355219 | 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 442217. 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.