BlockWestland, Indiana
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Warren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46135. It stands on Limestone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cloverdale quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.
On record in Westland
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- National Road over Deer Creek Historic Districtlisted 2018 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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 Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Cloverdale quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Cloverdale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Indianapolis quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
In the county-history sources
1,225 words on this townshipWeik's History of Putnam County, Indiana, published 1910 names this settlement in its chapter on Warren Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Putnamville is the only postoffice town in the township. Westland, which was laid out soon after Putnamville. had one store for a short time, but now has no inisiness house of any kind. A few houses in close proximity on either side of the National road are the only indications left to remind the passer-by of its former existence.
Passage source: Weik's History of Putnam County, Indiana, published 1910.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Westland: 8 producers, 1 plant, 1 past producer. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Fire Clay (Refractory), Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana State Farm Plant | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Lone Star Greencastle Qy/Cement Plt | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay | Producer | ||
| Putnam Co. Hwy. Dept. | Stone | Producer | ||
| Rock Hill Quarry | Limestone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Cloverdale Stone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Greencastle Pulverizing Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Plant | ||
| Greencastle Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lone Star Greencastle Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Manhattan Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Putman County Stone Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Putnamville | 1.2 miles | 14 | |
| Limedale | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Fox Ridge | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Cradick Corner | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Jenkinsville | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Greencastle | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Edgewood Lake | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Manhattan | 4.7 miles | 16 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q30621685 | 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 452226. 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.