BlockWestchester, Indiana
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1992. It stands in Bearcreek Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47371. The Survey maps it on the Portland quadrangle. It stands 899 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1915 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:48000
- 1915 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:62500
- 1918 USGS Fort Recovery quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Piqua quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westchester in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Tornado (EF2) | Westchester | - | A tornado developed approximately 3 miles southeast of Bryant Indiana around 350 PM EDT and rapidly strengthened to EF-2 category as the tornado tracked east-southeast, damaging or destroying several rural homes and farmsteads and felled a 100 foot communications tower. The tornado then weakened briefly as the parent storm turned hard right and reintensified into a multi-vortex, 500 yard wide EF-2 tornado as it tracked south-southeast, hitting several more farmsteads with damaged homes and destroyed farm buildings and killing several cattle. The parent storm and tornado both weakened thereafter with the tornado finally lifting/dissipating in an open field approximately 8 miles southeast of Bryant Indiana. Estimated peak winds of 130 mph. |
| July 2015 | Hail | Westchester | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| Noble | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Bloomfield | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Bryant | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Antiville | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Ridge | 4.6 miles | 15 | |
| Bellfountain | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Jay City | 5.4 miles | 13 |
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 Westchester | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7987226 | 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 445827. 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.
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.