Avonburg, Indiana

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Avonburg, Indiana
Unincorporated community
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Avonburg
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Avonburg
Coordinates: 38°53′11″N85°10′20″W / 38.88639°N 85.17222°W / 38.88639; -85.17222
Country United States
State Indiana
County Switzerland
Township Pleasant
Elevation
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925 ft (282 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
47043
Area codes 812, 930
GNIS feature ID430360 [1]

Avonburg is an unincorporated community in Pleasant Township, Switzerland County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1]

History

An old variant name of the community was called Soapville. [2] An 1885 county history describes Avonburg as a "cross-road settlement" with a "first class country store." [3] That crossroads is the intersection of Pleasant Grove Road and Soapville Road, about 7/10ths of a mile east of the intersection of Soapville Rd. and Indiana State Road 129.

References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Avonburg, Indiana
  2. ↑ "USGS detail on Avonburg - Variant Citation" . Retrieved August 25, 2016.
  3. ↑ History of Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerland Counties, Indiana, p. 1159 (1885)
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