BlockWest Middleton, Indiana
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Harrison Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46979. It stands on Lynn Run. The Survey maps it on the Kokomo West quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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 Danville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Danville quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Kokomo West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Lafayette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1992 USGS Kokomo West quadrangle1:24000
In the county-history sources
7,363 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Harrison Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
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 Harrison Township - it names this place 9 more 9 times.
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of West Middleton: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Yeoman Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Middleton in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Middleton | $9,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed large tree branches at County Road 580 West at 460 South. Winds also ripped off a barn's metal roofing while the remaining structure was left in tact, on County Road 400 West at 315 South. |
| November 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Middleton | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Middleton | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alto | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| New London | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Russiaville | 3.3 miles | 10 | |
| Shambaugh Siding | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Indian Heights | 4.9 miles | 11 | |
| Judson | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Ridgeway | 5.4 miles | 10 | |
| Kokomo | 5.4 miles | 11 |
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 West Middleton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7985922 | 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 445790. 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.