Walnut Hills, Indiana

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1998. It stands in Delaware Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46037. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the McCordsville quadrangle.

Walnut Hills within Hamilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1952 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS New Castle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Mc Cordsville quadrangle1:24000

What happened here

An account from the chapter on Delaware township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

From History of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880 - Delaware Township

Early Settlement

William Conner was the first white man to locate in the county. He built his trading post early in the century. It is said he and his brother, John Conner, were given their liberty by the Indians who had captured them when young boys, as a reward for their courage displayed in successfully running the gauntlet.

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In the county-history sources

8,379 words on this township

History of Hamilton County, Indiana : with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1880; History of Hamilton County Indiana, published 1915 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Delaware Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Delaware Township - 8,379 words.

Fires near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Walnut Hills in 2004, burning under an acre 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
23 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Hills: 7 producers, 2 past producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Indianapolis 521 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mccordsville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Carmel 512 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fishers Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Indianapolis 513 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mccordsville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Road Materials Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
U. S. Aggregates, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
U.S. Aggregates Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Hamilton 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
Valley Farms Estates	0.4 miles	12
Forest Ridge	0.7 miles	19
Quaker Ridge	0.8 miles	12
Spyglass Hill	0.8 miles	12
Cumberland Ridge	0.8 miles	12
Morgan Meadows	0.8 miles	19
Tremont	0.9 miles	12
Fishers	0.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2107202. 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.