Western Village, Indiana

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Anderson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46011. The Survey maps it on the Anderson South quadrangle.

Western Village within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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 Anderson quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Anderson South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1986 USGS Muncie quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

What happened here

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

From History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874 - Anderson Township

W. A. Hunt The Big Lick

The source of Lick Creek, proper, is what is generally called the Big Lick. Many an incident occurred here which gave much merriment and laughter among the old settlers, then living in this part of the county. It was a great place of resort for the wild game of the woods at that time, especially deer. (My informant states he saw seven one morning before breakfast, a pretty fair sight on an empty stomach indeed,) which would come and sup of the water that oozed from the sides of the low banks, water which seemed everlasting , and many an one was shot down by sporting men who then lived in this vicinity.

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In the county-history sources

32,903 words on this township

History of Madison County, Indiana, from 1820 to 1874 : Giving a General Review of Principal Events, Statistical and Historical Items, Derived from Official Sources, published 1874; Historical Sketches and Reminiscences of Madison County, Indiana, published 1897; History of Madison County Indiana (Volume 1), published 1914 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Anderson Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Anderson Township - 32,903 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 Western Village 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
16 April 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Indiana State Fire Marshal's Office	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Western Village: 2 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
Alexander & Sons	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Anderson Pit & Mill No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Anderson Pit-Abc Sand & Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Anderson Pit-Irving Materials, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
River Forest	0.5 miles	14
Brentwood	0.7 miles	14
Elmhurst	0.7 miles	14
Grandview	0.9 miles	14
Edgewood	1.0 miles	14
South Edgewood	1.1 miles	14
Woodlawn Heights	1.5 miles	14
Forest Hills	1.5 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 445832. 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.