Sandusky, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Clinton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47240. It stands on South Branch Clifty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milroy quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Sandusky within Decatur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Milroy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

1,257 words on this township

History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 names this settlement in its chapter on Clinton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Sandusky, the only town in Clinton township, was laid out along the Michigan di\'ision of the Big Four railroad on October 7, 1882, by Olliver C. Sefton. The building of the railroad through the county has made Sandusky a shipping point of importance, especially so since it is the nearest market for most of Fugit and a part of Adams townships. The business interests of 191 5 include the following: Blacksmith, Harrell & Cowan, W. O. Rozell; carpenter, A. T. Stanford, Stillman Bros., Elmer Ruddell; elevator, Sandusky Farmers Elevator Company, Jesse Anderson, manager: general store, Horace McDowell; hardware and implements, Horace Mc- Dowell ; livery, Charles Ray ; painter and paper hanger, Fleetwood & Seright :

Passage source: History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915.

J. T. Stanford operates a stone crusher a short distance from the town and furnishes most of the crushed stone used on the roads in the township. In the spring of 191 5 about forty of the leading farmers of the community surrounding Sandusky formed a company to operate the elevator at the town and are making extensive repairs to the building which they acquired. They intend to put in a grinding outfit and handle food stuffs of all kinds. A gas company, composed of Knox, Hall & Williams, has four wells, which furnish an abundant supply of gas for the town. They give a flat rate of one dollar a month for a stove and furnish one light. Additional lights cost fifteen cents. a month. The county farm, of one hundred and sixty acres, is located a mile southwest of Sandusky. Superintendent D. A. Burroughs now has twenty-seven inmates on the farm.

Passage source: History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Clinton Township.

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandusky in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
December 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Sandusky	$20,000	EF-1 tornado damage was observed near the Decatur-Rush County line with winds estimated at 105 mph. A barn was destroyed near the location the tornado touched down before heading into Rush County.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sandusky	$20,000	Grain bins were blown 100 yards near County Road 300 North and State Route 3 due to damaging thunderstorm wind gusts.
December 2004	Tornado (F0)	Sandusky	$15,000	On Tuesday 7 December 2004, a rare December tornado touched down near the small town of Sandusky, just north of Greensburg in Decatur County. The touchdown took place just south of the intersection of County Roads 150 West and 500 North at approximately 10:15 a.m. EST. The tornado traveled to the northeast for 1.5 miles, lifting just southwest of Sandusky near State Road 3. The path width was 75 yards, and the tornado was rated as an F0. Damage included a fence row blown down, shingles removed from homes and barns, one barn with partial roof damage, and a steeple blown off a rooftop near Sandusky. This tornado struck just 2 miles north of where another rare late-season tornado struck near Greensburg on November 24th.A preliminary search by NWS staff indicated that this was the first December tornado in Indiana since an F1 touched down in Marshall County, Indiana on 4 December 1973.
May 2011	Hail	Sandusky	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Williamstown	2.3 miles	10
Springhill (historical)	3.2 miles	10
Downeyville	4.1 miles	10
Adams	5.0 miles	10
Kingston	5.5 miles	10
Greensburg	5.7 miles	10
Saint Omer	6.3 miles	10
Craig	6.4 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 Sandusky	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7417000	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 443005. 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.

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.