Scottsville, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lafayette Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47106. It stands on Bannamon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Borden quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Scottsville within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1941 USGS Borden quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Borden quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Borden quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Scottsville: 6 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Jorris Sand Pit	Silica	Past Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottsville in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2011: 3 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 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	$2,000	Pine trees were snapped off. A barn door was damaged.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	-	A trained spotter reported many small to medium sized tree limbs down near the intersection of Saint Mary's and Banet Roads.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Scottsville	-	A large tree was downed near the Clark County line. Marble size hail was also reported.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Navilleton	2.1 miles	12
Galena	3.9 miles	14
Saint Marys	4.0 miles	19
Greenville	4.6 miles	14
Saint Joseph	5.3 miles	14
Floyds Knobs	5.7 miles	19
Blackiston Mill	7.5 miles	19
Duncan	7.9 miles	14

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 Q7438200

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 443167. 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.

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.