Dickeyville, Indiana

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Dickeyville, Indiana
Unincorporated community
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Dickeyville
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Dickeyville
Coordinates: 38°09′23″N87°13′14″W / 38.15639°N 87.22056°W / 38.15639; -87.22056
Country United States
State Indiana
County Warrick
Township Owen
Elevation
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486 ft (148 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
47601
Area codes 812, 930
GNIS feature ID 433540

Dickeyville is an abandoned unincorporated community in Owen Township, Warrick County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2]

History

The date of Dickeyville's founding is uncertain, but it had a post office established in 1884, remaining until 1903. [3] The community was named after the Dickey family of settlers. [4] At one time the town had "a grist mill, two saloons, two stores, [a] blacksmith shop...and a school." [5] One of the businesses reportedly kept lions in captivity one winter. [6]

The community lay atop one of the richest coal seams in Indiana, and the Sunlight Coal Company began strip mining the area in 1940. The town's last business closed in 1950 after most residents had left and most infrastructure had been "buried." [5] By 1981, nothing remained at the town site except a few foundations and some beech trees with carvings in the trunks. [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Dickeyville, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ↑ "Warrick County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History . Indiana University Press. p.  114. ISBN   978-0-253-32866-3. The name honors a local family.
  5. 1 2 Mitchell, William (January 2, 1950). "End is Near for Slowly Dying Dickeyville". Evansville Press. Evansville, IN: Scripps-Howard. Retrieved March 4, 2026.
  6. 1 2 Meyer, Barbara (November 26, 1981). "Where the Dickens is Dickeyville?". The Boonville Standard. Boonville, IN. Retrieved March 4, 2026.
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