Mentor, Indiana

Mentor, Indiana
Unincorporated community
Mentor is located in Indiana
Mentor
Mentor
Mentor is located in the United States
Mentor
Mentor
Coordinates: 38°18′59″N 86°43′08″W / 38.31639°N 86.71889°W / 38.31639; -86.71889
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyDubois
TownshipJefferson
Elevation
[1]
742 ft (226 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
47513
Area code(s)812, 930
FIPS code18-48420[2]
GNIS feature ID451211[1]

Mentor is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[1]

History

Mentor was founded in 1881 by Francis M. Sanders. Sanders, an admirer of President James A. Garfield, named the settlement for Garfield's hometown of Mentor, Ohio.[3]

An old variant name of the community was called Altoga. A post office ran with this name from 1883 to 1908.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mentor, Indiana
  2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ Wilson, George R. (1910). History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910. Windmill Publications. pp. 363.
  4. ^ "Dubois County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 9, 2017.


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