Dinwiddie, Indiana

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Dinwiddie, Indiana
Unincorporated community
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Dinwiddie
Coordinates: 41°17′22″N87°18′04″W / 41.28944°N 87.30111°W / 41.28944; -87.30111
Country Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
State Flag of Indiana.svg  Indiana
County Lake
Township Eagle Creek
Elevation
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204 m (669 ft)
Time zone UTC-6 (CST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
46341 (Hebron)
Area code 219
FIPS code 18-18195 [2]
GNIS feature ID433566 [1]

Dinwiddie is an unincorporated community in Eagle Creek Township, Lake County, Indiana.

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History

Dinwiddie was the name of a family of pioneer settlers. [3]

The Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad attempted to build a line through here from 1898, which was to run from Rensselaer on the Monon Railroad to Crown Point and Gary. The Monon took over in 1914, and left the project unfinished north of Dinwiddie which hence became a railroad terminus. The stub line was abandoned in 1935. [4]

Geography

Dinwiddie is located at the intersection of Interstate 65 and State Road 2.

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dinwiddie, 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. Lewis Publishing Company. p.  160.
  4. ↑ "Benjamin Gifford and the Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad" . Retrieved December 31, 2019.


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