BlockYellow Bank, Indiana
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Brookville Township. It lies in ZIP code area 47030. It stands on Yellow Bank Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brookville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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 Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Brookville quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Brookville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Greensburg quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
What happened here
An account from the chapter on Brookville township. The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.
Great Flood Of March 25, I913
The flood of March 25, 1913, was the greatest in volume of water, destruction of property and loss of life, of any that has ever visited this part of the White Water valley. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of property was destroyed and fifteen lives lost. Six hundred people in Brookville were rendered homeless and scores of dwellings swept away and torn to pieces.
In the county-history sources
16,177 words on this townshipThe county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Brookville 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 Brookville Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yellow Bank: 1 producer. All of them 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin County Highway Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millville | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Brookville | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Stavetown | 3.6 miles | 10 | |
| Oak Forest | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Metamora | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| Blooming Grove | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Pinhook | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Oak Tree Crossroads | 5.7 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 447630. 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.