BlockSharon, Indiana
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Carrollton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46929. The Survey maps it on the Deer Creek quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS Deer Creek quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
133 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Carrollton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Carrollton Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Storms near this place
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $30,000 | Thunderstorm winds removed the roof from a large metal garage and deposited it a short distance away. |
| September 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | $1,000 | Trees were downed near Sharon. |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharon | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wheeling | 0.9 miles | 8 | |
| Carrollton | 2.5 miles | 8 | |
| Deer Creek | 4.2 miles | 8 | |
| Burlington | 5.1 miles | 10 | |
| Flora | 7.1 miles | 9 | |
| Bringhurst | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Adams Mill | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Lexington | 8.3 miles | 10 |
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 Sharon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18357657 | 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 443292. 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.