Bennetts Switch, Indiana

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Bennetts Switch, Indiana
Census-designated place
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Bennetts Switch
Coordinates: 40°35′06″N86°06′46″W / 40.58500°N 86.11278°W / 40.58500; -86.11278
Country United States
State Indiana
County Miami
Township Deer Creek
Area
[1]
 • Total0.40 sq mi (1.0 km2)
 • Land0.40 sq mi (1.0 km2)
 • Water0.0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation
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824 ft (251 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
46901 (Kokomo)
GNIS feature ID 430817

Bennetts Switch is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Deer Creek Township, Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [3]

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History

Bennetts Switch (historically spelled with the apostrophe, "Bennett's Switch") was laid out shortly after the Lake Erie and Western Railroad was built through the settlement. [4] The community was named for landowner Baldwin M. Bennett, a native of New York. [4] A post office was established at Bennetts Switch in 1862, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1935. [5]

Geography

Bennetts Switch is in southwestern Miami County, along Indiana State Road 18, less than a mile east of U.S. Route 31. SR 18 leads east 13 miles (21 km) to Converse and west 4 miles (6 km) to Galveston. Peru, the Miami county seat, is 13 miles (21 km) to the north-northeast, while Kokomo is 7 miles (11 km) to the south in Howard County.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bennetts Switch CDP has an area of 0.40 square miles (1.04 km2), all land. Russell Ditch forms the southern edge of the community; it flows northwest to Deer Creek, which runs west to the Wabash River at Delphi.

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References

  1. ↑ "2022 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Indiana". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  2. ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bennetts Switch, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 5, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Bodurtha, Arthur Lawrence (1914). History of Miami County, Indiana: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Its Principal Interests. Lewis Pub. pp.  181.
  5. ↑ "Miami County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 22, 2015.


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