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{{short description|Village in Maharashtra}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}}
{{Orphan|date=August 2016}}

'''Yerad''' is a village in the Patan Taluka, Satara District in the [[Maharashtra]] state of [[India]]. Yerad is located 6.2 km distance from its Taluka main town, Patan. Yerad is 39.4 km from its District Main City Satara. It is 215 km from its State Main City [[Mumbai]].

Nearby villages to Yerad are Nerale (1.9 km), Tamkade (2.1 km), Zakade (2.4 km), Tolewadi (2.4 km), Manyachiwadi (2.5 km). Nearby towns are Karad (27.7 km), Satara (41 km), Jawali (50.9 km).

According to the government census, in 1941 there were about 900 people living in Yerad.<ref name="Kosambi1975">{{cite book|author=Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi|title=An Introduction to the Study of Indian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTvQiXVFB0gC&pg=PA46|year=1975|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7154-038-9|pages=46–}}</ref> This has now grown to about 1,100.<ref name=gaz>[https://cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/SATARA/places_Yerad.html "Yerad"]. ''Gazetteer of India'', Government of India.</ref> There is a stone temple in the village and a grove of mango trees.<ref name=gaz /> For many years an annual week long fair has attracted over 10,000 visitors, at times causing pollution problems.<ref name="Dept1936">{{cite book|author=Maharashtra (India). Public Health Dept|title=Annual Public Health Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3LMmAQAAIAAJ|year=1936}}</ref><ref name="Choksey1955">{{cite book|author=Rustom Dinshaw Choksey|title=Economic life in the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9fsAAAAMAAJ|year=1955|publisher=Asia Pub. House}}</ref>

In 1967 some of the buildings in the village were damaged by an earthquake.<ref>[http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/bssa_html/bssa_100-2/2008328-esupp/annotations.html "A Catalog of Felt Intensity Data for 570 Earthquakes in India from 1636 to 2009"]. by Stacey Martin and Walter Szeliga</ref>

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
*http://villagemap.in/maharashtra/yavatmal/yavatmal/1740400.html
*http://villagesinindia.in/maharashtra/satara/patan/yerad.html

{{coord missing|Maharashtra}}

[[Category:Villages in Satara district]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Maharashtra]]

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