Thomaston, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Hanna Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46390. The Survey maps it on the Hanna quadrangle. It stands 679 feet above sea level.

Thomaston within LaPorte County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Hanna quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Thomaston: 1 producer. 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
	Hanna Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Thomaston in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2016	Tornado (EF0)	Thomaston	$75,000	A survey of damage and eyewitness reports indicate a tornado briefly touched down in a open field southwest of the intersection of County Road 1600 south and 900 West. The tornado rapidly crossed County Road 900 South and impacted a 120 foot by 80 foot pole barn, with 80 percent of the roof removed and thrown into adjacent fields. A center pivot irrigation system was not damaged to the east of the barn, suggesting the tornado quickly lifted. Eyewitnesses reported watching 2 separate funnels lowering and raising off to the west.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Thomaston	-	Trained spotters reported four power poles and large trees down.

Every storm recorded in LaPorte 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
Hanna	2.9 miles	10
South Wanatah	4.9 miles	10
Wanatah	5.7 miles	10
Runnymede	5.7 miles	10
La Crosse	5.9 miles	10
Union Mills	8.2 miles	10
Wellsboro	8.6 miles	10
Haskell	8.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Thomaston	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7795588	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 444697. 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.