| Garden Acres, Indiana | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
  Garden Acres  Garden Acres | |
| Coordinates: 39°07′28″N86°34′41″W / 39.12444°N 86.57806°W Coordinates: 39°07′28″N86°34′41″W / 39.12444°N 86.57806°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Indiana |
| County | Monroe |
| Township | Van Buren |
| Elevation [1] | 837 ft (255 m) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 47403 |
| Area code(s) | 812, 930 |
| GNIS feature ID | 434942 |
Garden Acres is an unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2]
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Van Buren Township is one of eleven townships in Monroe County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 11,981 and it contained 5,347 housing units.
Monroe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana, and determined by the U.S. Census Bureau to include the mean center of U.S. population. The population was 137,974 at the 2010 census. The county seat is Bloomington.
