Ainsworth, Indiana

Ainsworth, Indiana
Neighborhood
Ainsworth is located in Indiana
Ainsworth
Ainsworth
Ainsworth is located in the United States
Ainsworth
Ainsworth
Coordinates: 41°29′16″N 87°15′31″W / 41.48778°N 87.25861°W / 41.48778; -87.25861
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyLake
TownshipRoss
Elevation
[1]
663 ft (202 m)
Population
 (2000)
 • Total
320
ZIP code
46342 (Hobart)
Area code219
FIPS code18-00694[2]
GNIS feature ID430149[1]

Ainsworth is a neighborhood of Hobart, Indiana. Prior to the early 1990s, it was an unincorporated community in Ross Township, Lake County, Indiana.

The Grand Trunk Railroad was extended to Ainsworth in 1880.[3]

In the early 1990s the area containing Ainsworth was annexed by the city of Hobart. A failed attempt to fight the annexation would have seen the area incorporated into the town of Ainsworth, thus bringing back the name of the old village. It is located near the intersection of Indiana State Road 51 and the Canadian National Railway (formerly the Grand Trunk Western Railroad).[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ainsworth, Indiana
  2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ Howat, William Frederick (1915). A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana, and the Calumet Region, Volume 1. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 184.


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