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There are several townships in Porter County, Indiana.Within each of the townships are several towns or cities or other type of named communities. There are many "lost" towns, a group of places whose names are still commonly used by county residents. Each may have had one time a post office, a store that served a part of the county, a grain elevator used by farmers to ship their crops,
Indiana State Road 2 passes just south of Rolling Prairie, leading southwest 7 miles (11 km) to La Porte, the county seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Rolling Prairie CDP has an area of 1.1 square miles (2.8 km 2 ), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km 2 ), or 1.39%, are water.
A marker commemorates Lincoln's speech.. In the mid-1850s, two large railway lines converged on the Indiana-Illinois state line – the narrow-gauge Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway (later the Wabash Railroad), whose route from the east crossed Warren County and reached the state line in October 1856, and the standard-gauge Great Western Railroad, which shortly thereafter reached the state ...
The Gila Bend Steam Locomotive Water Stop was built in 1900 and is located in Gila Bend, Arizona Remnants of Turkish railway station in Nitzana, Israel. Left: Water stop. Right: Wall of the Stationmaster's office. A water stop or water station on a railroad is a place where steam trains stop to replenish water. The stopping of the train itself ...
The county has four incorporated cities and towns with a total population of over 15,000, [5] as well as many small unincorporated communities. The county is divided into 12 townships which provide local services. [6] [7] There are four Indiana state roads in the county, as well as three U.S. Routes and one railroad line.
Fountain County lies in the western part of the U.S. state of Indiana on the east side of the Wabash River. The county was officially established in 1826 and was the 53rd in Indiana. The county seat is Covington. [2] According to the 2020 United States Census, its population was 16,479. [3]
This was the first train station in Lake County. [5] The Michigan Central Railroad built a park and railroad shops around its two-story depot. [5] A year later, in April 1852, George Earle mapped out and platted a town [5] of about 6,500 acres (26 km 2) on the site, continuing its name of Lake Station.
Hudson Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Hudson Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States. The town sits on the dividing line between Central and Eastern time zones. It is the site of the Hudson Lake station stop of the South Shore Line. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 1,297. [4]