User talk:Hog Farm/Indiana

10-June
Hog Farm Talk 20:40, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Adams: 15
 * Allen: 40
 * Bartholomew: 31
 * Benton: 17
 * Blackford: 5
 * Boone: 26
 * Brown: 24
 * Carroll: 20
 * Cass: 19
 * Clark: 29
 * Clay: 40
 * Clinton: 22
 * Crawford: 23
 * Daviess: 18
 * Dearborn: 21
 * Decatur: 31
 * DeKalb: 17
 * Delaware: 21
 * Dubois: 23
 * Elkhart: 11
 * Fayette: 16
 * Floyd: 11
 * Fountain: 16
 * Franklin: 34
 * Fulton: 16
 * Gibson: 22
 * Grant: 14
 * Greene: 38
 * Hamilton: 19
 * Hancock: 19
 * Harrison: 29
 * Hendricks: 20
 * Henry: 19
 * Howard: 16
 * Huntington: 20
 * Jackson: 31
 * Jasper: 23
 * Jay: 30
 * Jefferson: 18
 * Jennings: 13
 * Johnson: 22
 * Knox: 13
 * Kosciusko: 44
 * LaGrange: 20
 * Lake: 18
 * LaPorte: 34
 * Lawrence: 43
 * Madison: 18
 * Marshall: 15
 * Martin: 18
 * Miami: 26
 * Monroe: 28
 * Montgomery: 26
 * Morgan: 53
 * Newton: 12
 * Noble: 23
 * Ohio: 11
 * Orange: 30
 * Owen: 36
 * Parke: 52
 * Perry: 29
 * Pike: 35
 * Porter: 17
 * Posey: 27
 * Pulaski: 10
 * Putnam: 31
 * Randolph: 27
 * Ripley: 33
 * Rush: 25
 * Scott: 10
 * Shelby: 34
 * Spencer: 33
 * St. Joseph: 21
 * Starke: 13
 * Steuben: 37
 * Sullivan: 32
 * Switzerland: 19
 * Tippecanoe: 23
 * Tipton: 12
 * Union: 17
 * Vanderburgh: 29
 * Vermillion: 23
 * Vigo: 52
 * Wabash: 19
 * Warren: 15
 * Warrick: 39
 * Washington: 37
 * Wayne: 22
 * Wells: 25
 * White: 14
 * Whitley: 21

Another GNIS problem, at least in Indiana
I've found a bunch of cases while checking these where the GNIS entry seems to have been added or at least updated in the 2000s. I say this because there seems some likelihood that the labels on the 2013 topos seem to have been added from GNIS, as they appear where there wasn't anything before. Some of these seem to have been dropped in the recent cleanup, but I also have this case: Newton Stewart, Indiana. This was a real town that was drowned when Patoka Lake was created, but I had to find this out from googling. The label on the 2013 map, which is the GNIS location, is 2 1/4 miles SSW of the actual location, which I found from looking at the creek on topos from before the lake's creation and heading up and downstream until I found it. GNIS gives no clear indication of its source. I've found a couple of obvious errors before (one where they had copied data from another place, another where there was a one digit error) and a bunch of cases where the label's wanderings on the maps has created small inaccuracies, but this is both gross and inexplicable. At any rate, I would check everything against the topos in this, as there seems to be something systematic going on in this state. Mangoe (talk) 03:41, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

Another thing to note in Indiana
I started working through Morgan County, and I'm finding that lots of what one guess at first were towns (or 4th class POs) are actually early subdivisions. Take a look at Adams, Morgan County, Indiana for an example: the old aerials show it to have been laid out in the 1950s as a typical subdivision of the time. There seem to be a lot of these. Mangoe (talk) 00:18, 18 August 2022 (UTC)