Wesley, Indiana

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in Wayne Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47990. The Survey maps it on the Waynetown quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Wesley within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Waynetown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Danville quadrangle1:100000

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Wesley: 3 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Blackford Ray Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
L.E. Smith Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Morgan & Chesterson Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northcutt Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Northcutt Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Taylor Corner	3.0 miles	9
Waynetown	3.1 miles	9
Yountsville	3.3 miles	11
Hibernia	4.4 miles	9
Elmdale	4.8 miles	9
Manchester	5.8 miles	11
Fiskville	6.1 miles	11
Alamo	6.5 miles	14

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 Wesley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7983827	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 445688. 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.