BlockWooster, Indiana
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in Washington Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46562. The Survey maps it on the Pierceton quadrangle. It stands 886 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1950 USGS Pierceton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Pierceton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Fort Wayne quadrangle1:100000
In the county-history sources
2,539 words on this townshipBiographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887 names this settlement in its chapter on Washington Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.
Kosciusko station is a small hamlet possessing but little commercial importance, situated on the line of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad. There is a postofiice, a blacksmith-shop, and small stores where farmers can obtain general merchandise. The iiostoffice is known as " Wooster."
Passage source: Biographical and Historical Reocrd of Kosciusko County, published 1887.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pierceton | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Winona Lake | 4.4 miles | 12 | |
| Bayfield | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Highlands Park | 5.0 miles | 13 | |
| Arrowhead Park | 5.4 miles | 13 | |
| Stoneburner Landing | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Osborn Landing | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Barbee | 5.9 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 Wooster | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8034048 | 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 446328. 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.