Mentor, Indiana

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Mentor, Indiana
Unincorporated community
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Mentor
Coordinates: 38°18′59″N86°43′08″W / 38.31639°N 86.71889°W / 38.31639; -86.71889
Country United States
State Indiana
County Dubois
Township Jefferson
Elevation
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742 ft (226 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
47513
Area codes 812, 930
FIPS code 18-48420 [2]
GNIS feature ID451211 [1]

Mentor is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Dubois County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1]

History

Mentor was founded in 1881 by Francis M. Sanders. Sanders, an admirer of President James A. Garfield, named the settlement for Garfield's hometown of Mentor, Ohio. [3]

An old variant name of the community was called Altoga. A post office ran with this name from 1883 to 1908. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mentor, Indiana
  2. ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ↑ Wilson, George R. (1910). History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910. Windmill Publications. pp.  363.
  4. ↑ "Dubois County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 9, 2017.
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