Salem, Indiana

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Madison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47390. The Survey maps it on the Cosmos quadrangle. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Salem within Jay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1915 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Cosmos quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

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
Boundary City	4.8 miles	14
Salamonia	5.1 miles	14
Antioch	6.6 miles	14
Bluff Point	7.5 miles	14
Brice	8.0 miles	15
Bellfountain	8.6 miles	14
Collett	9.5 miles	12
Liber	9.5 miles	15

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 Salem	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7404004	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 442874. 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.