BlockShorts Corner, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Pierce Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47165. The Survey maps it on the Palmyra quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1950 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1966 USGS Palmyra quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
4,686 words on this townshipCentennial History of Washington County, Indiana : Its People, Industies and Institutions : with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1916 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Pierce Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Pierce Township - 4,686 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Shorts Corner: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fluorite Occurrence Number 1 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Fluorite Occurrence Number 1 | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shorts Corner in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Shorts Corner | $150,000 | A NWS Storm Survey team concluded that intermittent pockets of straight line winds occurred along a 1-2 mile wide path that started 9 miles south of Salem and extended east into Clark County. A roof was removed from a house along Indiana Highway 135 at the beginning of the area south of Salem. There were many locations with sporadic tree and barn damage, the worst being along Voyles Road 3 miles south of New Pekin. The roof was removed from an abandoned building in downtown Pekin and a mobile home was flipped. Peak wind speeds were estimated between 60 and 90 mph. |
| April 2025 | Tornado (EF2) | Shorts Corner | - | An EF2 tornado, with peak winds of 115 mph, tracked across a little over a 15-mile stretch of southern and eastern Washington County late Wednesday night. It likely dissipated over the heavily forested area along the Washington/Scott county border. |It was on the ground for 13 minutes and had a peak width of 600 yards.||The worst damage was near Conway Community Church near South Boston. The church had significant roof damage, with many gravestones in the adjacent cemetery knocked over. Just west of this location and next to the water tower, a single wide mobile |home was rolled about 75 yards north and completely destroyed. A chest freezer was picked up from here and thrown 100 yards northeast into the cemetery. A conservative estimate of the wind speed here is 115 mph. ||Additional widespread damage occurred along New Salem Road. north of State Road 160 where a swath of trees fell. Another mobile home was rolled upside down, likely in the inflow to this tornado. Just north of that location a barn roof was crumpled and another barn was destroyed. This area likely saw high end EF1 winds. The tornado continued northeast to the end of Calloway Road. where some structures were damaged but a very clear path of trees were snapped. ||The tornado was widest at both of these hard-hit locations. Otherwise it caused minor structural damage to several homes as well as snapping and uprooting many trees along the path. It started near the Big Spring Nature Preserve, where some roof |damage occurred to a barn and a tree fell along the road. It ended in the woods northeast of the eastern end of Calloway Road, or somewhere near the Washington/Scott County border.. The survey found some sporadic straight lined wind damage along the storm's path into Scott County south of Scottsburg. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organ Springs | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Becks Mill | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| New Pekin | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Old Pekin | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Martinsburg | 5.5 miles | 14 | |
| Farabee | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Rosebud | 6.2 miles | 12 | |
| Fredericksburg | 6.6 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 443457. 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.