BlockSomerville, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Barton Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47660. It lies near Moore Hill. The Survey maps it on the Francisco quadrangle. 253 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 469 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSomerville fell from 293 to 253 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 293 | |
| 2020 | 253 | -40 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1902 USGS Ditney quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1903 USGS Petersburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Francisco quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
2,160 words on this townshipHistory of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Barton Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Puysicrans. - The first physician to locate here was Dr. George Austin, who came in the fall of 1823. Before that time there was no physician nearer than Princeton. The settlers, however, were a hardy people and required but little attention from the doctors.
Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.
Coau. - The first digging for coal was done on Section 5, Township 8, Range 8, in the year 1883. While there is considerable coal to be found in Barton, there are no mines that are regularly worked. Some litile | coal is occasionally taken out from a seam which outcrops at the foot of McGregor Hill. There are also quarries of excellent building stone in the township. It is generally understood that the first quarry opened here was by a Mr. Kerns, though the stone is not now utilized to the extent that its merits demand. At some time it will no doubt furnish a liberal profit to any one who would develop the quarries and ship by rail.
Passage source: History of Gibson County Indiana, published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Storms near this place
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Somerville in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2006: 2 hail. 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mackey | 1.8 miles | 17 | |
| Oak Hill | 1.9 miles | 18 | |
| Gudgel | 2.1 miles | 18 | |
| Buckskin | 3.8 miles | 20 | |
| Gray Junction | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Oakland City | 4.6 miles | 18 | |
| Francisco | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Dongola | 6.9 miles | 18 |
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 Somerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2188419 | 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 443767. 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.