South Peru, 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 5 records

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

• James Omar Cole Houselisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
• Miami County Courthouselisted 2008 · 0.9 miles away
• Brownell Block/Senger Dry Goods Company Buildinglisted 1983 · 0.9 miles away
• Godfroy's Addition Historic Districtlisted 2023 · 0.8 miles away
• Peru Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 2018 · 0.8 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.

• 1951 USGS Bunker Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Bunker Hill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1985 USGS Logansport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of South Peru between 2003 and 2005, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Doyle
• Hidden Hills
• Oakdale
• Park View Heights
• Peru
• Ridgeview

Every fire recorded in Miami County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Peru: 4 producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Miami County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 443838. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.