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Schildmeier Park, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Sugar Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46163. It stands on Palestine Branch. The Survey maps it on the Acton quadrangle.

Schildmeier Park within Hancock 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

46,576 words on this township

History of Hancock County, Indiana, from Its Earliest Settlement by the "pale Face," in 1818, Down to 1882, published 1882; History of Hancock County, Indiana; Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Sugar Creek Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Sugar Creek Township - 46,576 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Schildmeier Park: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indianapolis Aggregates DivisionSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Hancock 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
Brookville Heights1.7 miles11
Carriage Estates2.5 miles11
New Palestine2.6 miles11
Gem4.3 miles12
Spring Lake5.8 miles12
Philadelphia6.3 miles12
Carrollton6.4 miles9
Reedville Station6.5 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122596818The 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 2109618. 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.