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Slatecut, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47143. It stands on Anson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Speed quadrangle.

Slatecut within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Slatecut: 6 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sellersburg Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Speed MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Speed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clark 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Perry Crossing0.4 miles14
Sylvan Grove2.1 miles15
Memphis2.4 miles14
Speed2.6 miles14
Bennettsville2.8 miles14
Wilson3.4 miles14
Sellersburg3.5 miles14
Hamburg4.5 miles14

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 Q18378593The 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 452140. 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.