Schnellville, Indiana

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Jefferson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47580. The Survey maps it on the Saint Anthony quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Schnellville within Dubois County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1955 USGS Saint Anthony quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Saint Anthony quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

824 words on this township

History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Jefferson Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Birdseye. There was a crossroads trading point here many years prior to 1846, when it was decided to make it a post-office. Rev. Benjamin T. Goodman was the postmaster at Worth postoffice near Schnellville, and Thomas A. King, who was later Birdseye's first postmaster, went to see "Bird" - as Goodman was known by all his friends - about naming the post office. They selected many names, but on referring to the Postal Directory, found all of them had been pre-empted. At last, in despair, they decided to name the town after "Bird" Goodman. They annexed the "eye" to make it complete. This is the story that is given by Mrs. Inman, who was then Mrs. King, and who was the first postmistress of the town.

Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.

Born in Germany, October 22. 1821. Served in Company I. 49th Indiana Volunteers, for four years. Took part in the siege of Vicksburg, and the battle of Port Gibson, Champion Hill and others. Laid out the town of Schnellville in 1.S65. and served thirteen years as county commissioner and trustee.

Passage source: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910.

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 Jefferson Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.

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 Schnellville between 2004 and 2010, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
29 February 2004	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Hoosier National Forest	BIRDSEYE FIRE
11 November 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Hoosier National Forest	VET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dubois County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Schnellville in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 hail, 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
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Schnellville	-	Power lines were blocking both lanes of an unknown road.
April 2015	Hail	Schnellville	-	Transportation officials reported nickel size hail fell in Schnellville.
April 2015	Hail	Schnellville	-	The public reported that quarter sized hail fell in Schnellville.
May 2002	Hail	Schnellville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dubois 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
Mentor	2.6 miles	13
Kyana	2.9 miles	13
Celestine	3.2 miles	13
Birdseye	3.6 miles	13
Saint Marks	4.1 miles	13
Saint Anthony	4.2 miles	13
Ellsworth	6.3 miles	13
Bretzville	6.8 miles	13

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 Schnellville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7431907	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 443084. 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.

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.