Stafford Center, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Stafford Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46721. The Survey maps it on the Butler East quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Stafford Center within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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 Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Butler East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Defiance quadrangle1:100000

In the county-history sources

546 words on this township

History of Dekalb County, Indiana, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Old Families, published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Stafford Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Stafford Township - 546 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Stafford Center: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hoffman Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weber Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Weber Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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
Butler	2.6 miles	11
Newville	4.2 miles	11
Artic	4.6 miles	11
Orangeville	5.2 miles	11
Moore	6.4 miles	10
Newville Center	6.5 miles	11
Saint Joe	7.4 miles	10
Taylor Corner	8.2 miles	10

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 Q7596607

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 444044. 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.