BlockSaline City, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sugar Ridge Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47840. The Survey maps it on the Saline City quadrangle. It stands 571 feet above sea level.
On record in Saline City
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Jeffers Bridgelisted 2000 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 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.
- 1908 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:48000
- 1910 USGS Clay City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Saline City quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Saline City: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Clay, Coal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashboro North Pit | Clay, Coal | Producer | ||
| Sphalerite Occurrence | Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Stratabound | |
| Sphalerite Occurrence Z83 | Zinc, Sulfur | Occurrence | Stratabound |
Storms near this place
1 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saline City in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Saline City | $2,000 | Power lines were downed due to thunderstorm wind gusts. Exact locations were not noted. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashboro | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Art | 2.9 miles | 17 | |
| Eel River | 2.9 miles | 16 | |
| Cory | 4.1 miles | 17 | |
| Center Point | 4.6 miles | 16 | |
| Lap Corner | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Prairie City | 5.6 miles | 16 | |
| Old Hill | 5.9 miles | 17 |
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 Saline City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7404681 | 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 442932. 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.