Shipshewana Lake, Indiana

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Menno Yoder Polygonal Barnlisted 1993 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1961 USGS Shipshewana quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana., published 1874 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shipshewana Lake: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2830272. 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.