Sandstone Ridge, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Fall Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46037. It stands on Mount Zion Branch. The Survey maps it on the McCordsville quadrangle.

Sandstone Ridge within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1952 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Fall Creek township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915 - Fall Creek Township

A Happy Hunting Ground

In the early days Fall Creek township was one of the best "hunting grounds/' not only for the red men but later for their pale-faced brothers. It was in this section that the Indians who were murdered by Bridges and Sawyer were hunting and the fine furs and pelts in their possession, coveted by the two whites, were the direct cause of the murders.

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In the county-history sources

2,634 words on this township

History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Fall Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Fall Creek Township - 2,634 words.

Fires near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sandstone Ridge in 2004, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
8 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sandstone Ridge: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mccordsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fishers Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mccordsville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton County

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
Breakwater	0.4 miles	12
Heather Point	0.4 miles	12
Forest Knoll	0.4 miles	12
Turner Grove	0.6 miles	12
Sandstone Woods	0.6 miles	12
Gray Eagle	0.6 miles	12
The Portage	0.6 miles	12
Bradford Court	0.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2107235. 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.