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Welborn Switch, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1982. It stands in Black Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47620. It stands on Large Drain. The Survey maps it on the Maunie quadrangle.

Welborn Switch within Posey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

In the county-history sources

35,592 words on this township

History and Directory of Posey County [Indiana] : Containing an Account of the Early Settlement and Organization of the County ... : Also a Complete List of the Tax-payers, Their Post-office Addresses and Places of Residence, Together with a Business Directory of Mt. Vernon and New Harmony ... Also Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1882; History of Posey County, Indiana : from the Earliest Times to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc. : Together with an Extended History of the Northwest, the Indiana Territory, and the State of Indiana, published 1886; History of Posey County, Indiana, published 1913 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Black Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Black Township - 35,592 words.

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
Savah1.4 miles21
Grafton2.5 miles21
Upton3.6 miles19
Erwin4.7 miles19
Solitude5.4 miles21
Farmersville5.8 miles19
Dead Mans Crossing5.9 miles19
Prairie6.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 445655. 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.