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Sardinia, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47283. It stands on Turnover Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grammer quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Sardinia within Decatur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

In the county-history sources

78 words on this township

History of Decatur County, Indiana : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Jackson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Jackson Township - 78 words.

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sardinia in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2011: 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindSardinia$15,000A barn was reported to be destroyed near the intersection of State Route 3 and County Road 700 West.
June 2010Flash FloodSardinia$500Water was reported to be over Highway 3 in Sardinia.
June 2010Flash FloodSardinia$500The water reported to be over Highway 3 was increasing rapidly. Water was also reported to be on side streets as well.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Harper2.0 miles11
Alert2.5 miles11
Westport3.4 miles11
Waynesburg4.4 miles11
Mapleton Corner5.2 miles11
Neff Corner5.3 miles11
Letts Corner6.3 miles11
Letts6.6 miles11

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 SardiniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7423798The 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 443031. 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.