Saint Johns, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Butler Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46738. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

Saint Johns within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000
1973 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

586 words on this township

History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of 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 Butler Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Butler Township - 586 words.

Fires near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Saint Johns between 2002 and 2003, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 July 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 April 2003	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 February 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Saint Johns: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Auburn Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fedrick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Hixon Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Indian Springs Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lampe Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Midwest Plant No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Plant
Scott Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sheets Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
New Era	1.1 miles	11
Butler Center	1.2 miles	10
Cedar	2.3 miles	10
Garrett	3.0 miles	10
Auburn Junction	3.6 miles	11
Altona	3.7 miles	10
Auburn	5.0 miles	11
Hopewell	5.3 miles	11

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 Johns	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7401488	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 442564. 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.