Steubenville, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in Steuben Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46705. The Survey maps it on the Ashley quadrangle. It stands 991 feet above sea level.

Steubenville within Steuben County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1942 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1985 USGS Elkhart quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Ashley quadrangle1:24000

In the county-history sources

16,431 words on this township

History of Steuben County, Indiana, Together with... Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885 names this settlement in its chapter on Steuben Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

The first log house was built in 1835, on section 15, The first frame dwellinsc was erected bv Seth W. Murray in 1836. The first school-house was built in 1836, on section 10, in the then village of Steubenville. Lucy Avery was the first teacher. Abner Winsor and Seth W. Murray put out the first orchards in the spring of 1836.

Passage source: History of Steuben County, Indiana, Together with... Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.

Steubenville, which was platted in November, 1835, was the competitor of Angola for the location of the county seat, early in 1837, Glover, "Winsor and others endeavoring unsuccessfully to have the county buildings in their town. Steubenville was situated not far from the present village of Pleasant Lake. When the county seat was located at Angola, in 1837, Steubenville commenced declining, and was never destined to fulfill the expectations of its pioneer proprietors .

Passage source: History of Steuben County, Indiana, Together with... Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.

Another Steubenville was laid out March 10, 1873, on section 34, township 36, range 13, by Daniel Till and Samuel Teeters. It was started when the Canada Southern Railroad was surveyed, and was located at the crossing of that road and the Fort Wayne & Jackson Eailroad, but since the former road failed to be built it has rapidly declined.

Passage source: History of Steuben County, Indiana, Together with... Biographies of Representative Citizens, published 1885.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Steuben Township.

Fires near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Steubenville between 2003 and 2005, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
1 June 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
4 April 2005	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 April 2004	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Steuben County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steubenville in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2014: 1 tornado, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2001	Tornado (F0)	Steubenville	$20,000	Tornado touched down east of Kendallville with F1 damage to homes and warehouses in and near the Kendallville East Industrial park. Tornado then moved northeast into Dekalb county where F2 damage occurred around Fairfield Center with significant damage to homes. Then tornado moved southeast of Ashley with F1 damage and then moved into Steuben county south of Steubenville doing F0 damage to a barn before lifting north of Steubenville.
May 2014	Hail	Steubenville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Steuben 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
Pleasant Lake	3.0 miles	14
Hudson	3.1 miles	14
Moonlight	3.6 miles	14
Penn Park	5.3 miles	14
Forest Park	5.3 miles	14
Island Park	5.4 miles	14
Russels Point	5.4 miles	14
Hamilton	5.8 miles	14

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 Steubenville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7611693	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 444135. 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.

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.