East Mount Carmel, Indiana

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East Mount Carmel, Indiana
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Coordinates: 38°23′36″N87°44′41″W / 38.39333°N 87.74472°W / 38.39333; -87.74472 Coordinates: 38°23′36″N87°44′41″W / 38.39333°N 87.74472°W / 38.39333; -87.74472
Country United States
State Indiana
County Gibson
Township White River
Elevation
390 ft (120 m)
ZIP code
47665
FIPS code 18-19918 [1]
GNIS feature ID433922 [2]

East Mount Carmel is a small unincorporated community near the southwestern corner of White River Township in Gibson County, Indiana. The community is home to around 50 people.

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History

East Mount Carmel was founded in ca. 1885. [3] It lies east of Mount Carmel, Illinois, hence the name. [4]

The post office which East Mount Carmel once contained was called Fetters due to the similarity of the village's name to Carmel, Indiana. [4] The Fetters post office operated from 1897 until 1907. [5]

Geography

East Mount Carmel is located at 38°23′36″N87°44′41″W / 38.39333°N 87.74472°W / 38.39333; -87.74472 , immediately across the Wabash River from Mount Carmel, Illinois. The Patoka River meets the Wabash just north of the community, and the Gibson Generating Station complex surrounds the community to the south and east.

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References

  1. "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2013-09-11. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. "East Mount Carmel, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved 2009-10-17.
  3. Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History . Indiana University Press. p.  120. ISBN   978-0-253-32866-3. This village was established about 1885...
  4. 1 2 Stormont, Gil R. (1914). History of Gibson County, Indiana: Her People, Industries and Institutions, with Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families. B.F.Bowen. p.  305.
  5. "Gibson County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.