Calcutta, Indiana

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Calcutta is an unincorporated community in Clay County, Indiana, in the United States.^[1]

Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 26,890. The county seat is Brazil.

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History

Calcutta was founded in 1870 as a coal town.^[2] A post office was established at Calcutta in 1870, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1879.^[3]

A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch is typically situated in a remote place and provides residences for a population of miners to reside near a coal mine. A coal town is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to work the mineral find. The 'town founding' process is not limited to coal mining, nor mining, but is generally found where mineral wealth is located in a remote or undeveloped area, which is then opened for exploitation, normally first by having some transportation infrastructure brought into being first. Often, such minerals were the result of logging operations by pushing into a wilderness forest, which clear-cutting operations then allowed geologists and cartographers, to chart and plot the lands, allowing efficient discovery of natural resources and their exploitation.

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References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Calcutta, Indiana
↑ Blanchard, Charles (1884). Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana: Historical and Biographical ... F.A. Battey & Company. p. 251.
↑ "Clay County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 30 August 2014.

Coordinates: 39°36′15″N87°04′10″W / 39.60417°N 87.06944°W / 39.60417; -87.06944

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[1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Calcutta, Indiana

[2] Blanchard, Charles (1884). Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana: Historical and Biographical ... F.A. Battey & Company. p. 251.

[3] "Clay County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 30 August 2014.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Clay County, Indiana, United States
County seat: Brazil
City	Brazil	Map of Indiana highlighting Clay County
Towns	Carbon Center Point Clay City Harmony Knightsville Staunton
Townships	Brazil Cass Dick Johnson Harrison Jackson Lewis Perry Posey Sugar Ridge Van Buren Washington
CDP	Coalmont
Other unincorporated communities	Art Ashboro Asherville Barrick Corner Bee Ridge Benwood Billtown Billville Bogle Corner Bowling Green Brunswick Buchanan Corner Calcutta Cardonia Cherryvale‡ Cloverland Cory Cottage Hill Eel River Hickory Island‡ Hirt Corner‡ Hoffman Crossing Hoosierville Howesville Lap Corner Mechanicsburg Middlebury Old Hill Perth Poland Pontiac Prairie City Purdy Hill Roadman Corner Saline City Shady Lane Six Points Stearleyville Turner Twin Beach
Ghost towns	Donaldsonville
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties