BlockSwalls, Indiana
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lost Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47803. The Survey maps it on the Seelyville quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 18 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.
- 1941 USGS Seelyville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1952 USGS Seelyville 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
- 1963 USGS Seelyville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Terre Haute quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Storms near this place
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swalls in 1 storm report in 2016: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2016 | Hail | Swalls | - | Hail ranged from pea size to golf ball size. It lasted for a few minutes. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Ayre | 1.0 miles | 18 | |
| Gospel Grove | 1.1 miles | 18 | |
| East Glenn | 1.8 miles | 18 | |
| Grange Corner | 1.9 miles | 18 | |
| Seelyville | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Cherryvale | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Tabertown | 3.0 miles | 18 | |
| Deming Park | 3.5 miles | 18 |
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 Swalls | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7653131 | 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 444453. 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.
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.