BlockSharptown, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1996. It stands in Whitewater Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47060. It lies near Elkhorn Hill. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 15 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.
- 1915 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:48000
- 1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000
- 1996 USGS Harrison quadrangle1:24000
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drewersburg | 2.7 miles | 15 | |
| Mount Carmel | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Ashby (historical) | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Scipio | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Cedar Grove | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| Rockdale | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| New Trenton | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Palestine | 4.5 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 Sharptown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7490448 | 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 443314. 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.