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Scott Corner, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47340. The Survey maps it on the Modoc quadrangle.

Scott Corner within Randolph 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

60,303 words on this township

History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882; Past and Present of Randolph County, Indiana : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1914; List of Residents of Franklin, Green, Greensfork, Jackson, Monroe, Nettle Creek, Stony Creek, Ward, Washington, Wayne, West River and White River Townships, Randolph County, Indiana, published 1920; The Hoosier Pioneer : the Yearbook of the Consolidated High Schools of Randolph County, Indiana, published 1926 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Union Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Union Township - 60,303 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 Scott Corner: 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
H & S Materials PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Pinch1.4 miles11
Unionport2.6 miles12
Modoc3.2 miles11
Huntsville3.2 miles12
Buena Vista3.5 miles12
Georgetown5.4 miles11
Losantville5.5 miles11
Maxville5.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 443145. 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.