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Saint James, Indiana

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Johnson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47639. The Survey maps it on the Haubstadt quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Saint James within Gibson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

In the county-history sources

9,092 words on this township

History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884; History of Gibson County, Indiana : Her People, Industries and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Johnson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Johnson Township - 9,092 words.

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
Haubstadt2.0 miles17
Warrenton2.4 miles17
Fort Branch5.1 miles24
Durham5.7 miles24
McGary6.6 miles23
Mounts7.8 miles17
Fort Gibson (historical)7.9 miles24
Owensville8.8 miles23

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 Saint JamesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7401393The 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 442547. 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.