South Center, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Union Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46532. The Survey maps it on the Kingsford Heights quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

South Center within LaPorte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Kingsford Heights quadrangle1:24000
1969 USGS Kingsford Heights quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Center: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Webb Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Center in 2 storm reports in 1998: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	South Center	-	TREES DOWN REPORTED BY SHERIFFS DEPT.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	South Center	-	POWER LINES DOWN.

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Union Center	0.5 miles	11
Tracy	2.3 miles	11
Kingsford Heights	2.8 miles	11
Kingsbury	4.7 miles	13
Kankakee	5.8 miles	11
Stillwell	5.8 miles	11
Wellsboro	6.8 miles	10
Salem Heights	6.9 miles	11

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 South Center	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7566734	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 443795. 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.