BlockWakeland, Indiana
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Ashland Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46166. The Survey maps it on the Paragon quadrangle. It stands 833 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1953 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Paragon quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Paragon quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1986 USGS Bloomington quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
In the county-history sources
6,851 words on this townshipCounties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical, published 1884 names this settlement in its chapter on Ashland Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
D.'s parents brought him to Marion County, Ind., in his fourth year, and here he attained manhood on the farm, and received the rudiments of an education. In 1856, he came to Morgan County, and has remained here ever since. He enlisted, in the fall of 1862, in Company H, Seventieth Indiana Infantry. He was in the following battles: Eesaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and in the sieges of Atlanta, Bentonville and Averyboro, besides other battles and numerous skirmishes. He was discharged at Indianapolis in the spring of 1865. He also accompanied Sherman on his "march to the sea." Mr. Wakeland married, on October 16, 1853, to Sarah P. Hawkins, a native of Indiana. They have had seven children - one deceased (unnamed), Edwilda J. (deceased). Turner R., Clytus C, Eliza J., John J. and Charley A. Mrs. Wakeland is a member of the Christain Church, and he is a member of the G. A. R. He has a farm of ninety-eight acres, well improved, and is a liberal giver to all charitable institutions. He is a Republican. He has been acting as Deputy Sheriff, more or less, for the past eight years.
Passage source: Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical, published 1884.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Ashland Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wakeland: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porter Cave Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plano | 2.6 miles | 17 | |
| Herbamount | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Mount Zion Corner | 3.6 miles | 13 | |
| Potato Mound | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Eminence | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Paragon | 5.2 miles | 17 | |
| Wilbur | 5.6 miles | 14 | |
| Browns Crossing | 5.7 miles | 17 |
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 Q7961102 | 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 445361. 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.