Mount Comfort, Indiana

Mount Comfort, Indiana
Unincorporated community
Mount Comfort is located in Indiana
Mount Comfort
Mount Comfort
Mount Comfort is located in the United States
Mount Comfort
Mount Comfort
Coordinates: 39°49′51″N 85°54′55″W / 39.83083°N 85.91528°W / 39.83083; -85.91528
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyHancock
TownshipBuck Creek
Elevation
[1]
856 ft (261 m)
ZIP code
46140
FIPS code18-51390[2]
GNIS feature ID439557[1]

Mount Comfort is an unincorporated community in Buck Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana.

History

A post office was established at Mount Comfort in 1851, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1956.[3]

Mount Comfort was platted as a town in about 1882, when the railroad was extended to that point.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Comfort, Indiana
  2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ "Hancock County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  4. ^ Richman, George J. (1916). History of Hancock County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions. Wm. Mitchell Printing Company. pp. 570.


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