Toll Gate Heights, Indiana

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Lancaster Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46714. It stands on Johns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Uniondale quadrangle. It stands 837 feet above sea level.

Toll Gate Heights within Wells County

On record in Toll Gate Heights

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.

Villa North Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.6 miles away

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 Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Uniondale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Wabash quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Toll Gate Heights between 2002 and 2004, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
3 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
22 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
5 June 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
27 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
19 June 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
15 April 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wells County

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 Toll Gate Heights: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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	Recorded
Erie Stone Company-Bluffton	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Sphalerite Occurrence Z75	Zinc, Sulfur	Occurrence	Sphalerite
Wells Co. Hwy. Dept	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Wells 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
Bluffton	1.3 miles	11
North Oaks	1.4 miles	10
Murray	3.0 miles	10
Craigville	4.2 miles	10
Travisville	5.0 miles	11
Kingsland	5.1 miles	10
Curryville	5.4 miles	10
Tocsin	5.9 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 Q7814313

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 444801. 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.

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.