BlockElkhart Township
The complete chapter on this township from Illustrated Historical Atlas of Noble County, Indiana., published 1874. 87 words, covering 2 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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosperville | - | 3 | 2 | - |
| Wawaka | - | 2 | 1 | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 2 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
87 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Illustrated Historical Atlas of Noble County, Indiana., published 1874. 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.
Elkhart Township
county after Joel Bristol and the Tibbot family. This conflicts with Is Tibholt's recollection, who thinks Levi Perry was the second settler.
Knight located on section 29. The next settler appears to have bi Washington Men-haw, and following soon we:e lb, Cray-. Joseph Hell a John Bowman.
The first school building stood on section 29. When first organiz York Township contained fifteen married couples and one bachelor. 1 first school teacher was James McMuUen. Jceph Bradford taught a sch on section 32 in the winter of 1836-7,
Provenance
Text from Illustrated Historical Atlas of Noble County, Indiana., published 1874, 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.