BlockCenter Township
The complete chapter on this township from History and Directory of Posey County [Indiana] : Containing an Account of the Early Settlement and Organization of the County ... : Also a Complete List of the Tax-payers, Their Post-office Addresses and Places of Residence, Together with a Business Directory of Mt. Vernon and New Harmony ... Also Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1882. 124 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hepburn | 1 | - | - | - |
| Oliver | 1 | - | - | - |
| Wadesville | - | 20 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 3 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
124 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History and Directory of Posey County [Indiana] : Containing an Account of the Early Settlement and Organization of the County ... : Also a Complete List of the Tax-payers, Their Post-office Addresses and Places of Residence, Together with a Business Directory of Mt. Vernon and New Harmony ... Also Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1882. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Center Township
Was so named because of its central location in the county, and was formed from parts of Robinson, Lynn and Harmony, in March, 1859. Although it is youngest, it is by no means the least, in point of wealth and productiveness. In 1880, there were 7,071 acres of land under cultivation, the yield of wheat and corn for that year aggregating 153,- 140 bushels, of which there were 92,445 bushels of corn, which averaged a yield of 43 bushels per acre. The inhabitants of the township are prosperous and thrifty, and show a disposition to improve in every particular that is highly commendable. The superior natural advantages of the township cannot be ignored, and for that reason we predict for it a glorious destiny.
Provenance
Text from History and Directory of Posey County [Indiana] : Containing an Account of the Early Settlement and Organization of the County ... : Also a Complete List of the Tax-payers, Their Post-office Addresses and Places of Residence, Together with a Business Directory of Mt. Vernon and New Harmony ... Also Biographical Sketches of Prominent Citizens of the County, published 1882, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.