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Vigo, Indiana

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Prairie Creek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47802. The Survey maps it on the Hutton quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Vigo within Vigo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Vigo: 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clark County Pit 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lawrence East & West DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Quinn Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Vigo County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vigo in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2003: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2003Thunderstorm WindVigo-Numerous trees down.
August 1994HailVigo-Power lines blown down near Hutsonville Illinois.

Every storm recorded in Vigo 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hutton2.1 miles20
Prairie Creek2.3 miles15
Prairieton6.6 miles15
Pimento8.5 miles15
Youngstown9.7 miles15
State Line10.3 miles19
Allendale10.4 miles17
Woodgate10.5 miles17

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 VigoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7928982The 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 445288. 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.