Ainsworth, Indiana

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Ainsworth, Indiana
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Coordinates: 41°29′16″N87°15′31″W / 41.48778°N 87.25861°W / 41.48778; -87.25861
Country United States
State Indiana
County Lake
Township Ross
Elevation
[1]
663 ft (202 m)
Population
 (2000)
  Total320
ZIP code
46342 (Hobart)
Area code 219
FIPS code 18-00694 [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 ]

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References

  1. 1 2 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.