Needmore, Brown County, Indiana

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Needmore
Unincorporated community
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Needmore
Location in Brown County
Coordinates: 39°15′04″N86°20′23″W / 39.25111°N 86.33972°W / 39.25111; -86.33972
Country United States
State Indiana
County Brown
Township Jackson
Elevation
[1]
722 ft (220 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
47448
Area codes 812 & 930
FIPS code 18-52182 [2]
GNIS feature ID439974 [1]

Needmore is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Brown County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1]

History

A post office was established at Needmore in 1872, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1919. [3] Tradition has it when an early visitor to the settlement remarked that it "needed more", the name stuck. [4]

In 1884, Needmore contained a blacksmith, several stores, and a population of approximately 100 inhabitants. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Needmore, Brown County, Indiana
  2. ↑ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau . Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ↑ "Brown County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
  4. ↑ Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History . Indiana University Press. p.  233. ISBN   978-0-253-32866-3. ...said that he had never seen a community that needed more, so the village was called Needmore.
  5. ↑ Blanchard, Charles (1884). Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Company. pp.  738.
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