BlockSummit Grove, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Helt Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47842. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle. It stands 518 feet above sea level.
On record in Summit Grove
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 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Salem Methodist Episcopal Churchlisted 1979 · 0.8 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1951 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Clinton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Paris quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
4,817 words on this townshipBiographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana : Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Cleveland, with Accompanying Biographies of Each; a Condensed History of the State of Indiana; Portraits and Biographies of Some of the Prominent Men of the State; Engravings of Prominent Citizens in Vermillion County, with Personal Histories of Many of the Leading Families, and a Concise History of the County and Its Villages, published 1888; History of Parke and Vermillion Counties, Indiana : with Historical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families, published 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.
The chapter on Helt Township covers the township.
Read the chapter on Helt Township - 4,817 words.
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Summit Grove: 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dee Clay Pit | Stone, Clay | Producer | ||
| Montezuma Shale Plant | Clay | Plant | ||
| D. Robertson Gravel Company Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Montezuma Gravel | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| W.C. Hargis Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit Grove in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2009: 5 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2009 | Flood | Summit Grove | $2,500 | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of bottomlands, parks, and lowest roads along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Vermillion County at and near the Montezuma river gage. This flood event is a continuation from December. |
| December 2008 | Flood | Summit Grove | $2,500 | Rainfall and warm temperatures that occurred on and off during the second half of December led to flooding of bottomlands, parks, and lowest roads along the Wabash River during late December and very early January, affecting Vermillion County at and near Montezuma river gage. This flood event continued into January. |
| March 2009 | Flood | Summit Grove | - | Extensive flooding of agricultural land occurred along the Wabash River in and near Clinton, IN. The river crested 6.1 feet above flood stage at the Clinton river gauge on March 14th with a reading of 24.1 feet. Data is estimated due to missing data. |
| February 2009 | Flood | Summit Grove | - | Bottomlands and low lying county roads flooded occurred along the Wabash River in Vermillion County, including in and near Montezuma, due to heavy rain. |
| May 2009 | Flood | Summit Grove | - | Low bottomlands flooded along the Wabash River in/near Clinton, Indiana. The river crested 2 feet above flood stage on May 3rd at a reading of 20 feet. Flooding of this magnitude typically affects a few or so local and county roads, and agricultural land. Damage costs are grossly estimated. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Station | 2.7 miles | 16 | |
| Alta | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Fairview Park | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Sandytown | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hillsdale | 4.2 miles | 16 | |
| Klondyke | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Clinton | 4.7 miles | 14 | |
| Highland | 4.8 miles | 16 |
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 Summit Grove | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7637808 | 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 444396. 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.