BlockSpencerville, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Spencer Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46788. The Survey maps it on the Saint Joe quadrangle. It stands 807 feet above sea level.
On record in Spencerville
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 1 record
Spencerville Covered Bridgelisted 1981
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Saint Joe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
126 words on this townshipHistory of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914 names this settlement in its chapter on Spencer Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Spencerville is the only town of any consequence in the township. The town has about two hundred and seventy-five people, and several good business houses and stores. Two churches and two lodges have existence here. The town is not incorporated. One school building, a very complete and excellent structure, was erected in 1909 at a cost of seven thousand dollars. The Wabash railroad runs about two miles west of the town, and transfer is provided to the station.
Passage source: History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
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 Spencerville: 2 producers. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krafft Sand & Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Spencerville Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spencerville in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spencerville | 3 hurt | Emergency management officials and local media report a 27 year old female was critically injured when a large tree fell onto her vehicle on County Road 68, near State Road 101 in Spencerville. The tree fell onto her minivan's roof between the windshield and rear of the front seats. The van continued forward before going off the road, striking a tree. Two minors were also in the van, but only suffered minor injuries. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spencerville | - | A large tree limb fell onto a house, a motorhome, and powerlines. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Spencerville | - | Law enforcement officials reported some roof damage to a few structures as a result of the hail. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spencerville | - | Local media reported a large tree was blown down across County Road 68, blocking traffic. |
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spencerville | - | Law enforcement officials reported trees and power lines down in Spencerville. |
| May 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Spencerville | - | Law Enforcement report |
| July 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spencerville | - | Large branches were blown down. |
| April 2017 | Hail | Spencerville | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Spencerville | - | no account filed |
| March 2016 | Hail | Spencerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spencerville | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Spencerville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Joe | 2.5 miles | 10 | |
| Concord | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Orangeville | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Hopewell | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Newville Center | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Newville | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Moore | 8.0 miles | 10 | |
| Auburn | 9.3 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 Spencerville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7576249 | 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 443944. 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.