Mount Comfort, Indiana

Unincorporated community in Indiana, United States
39°49′51″N 85°54′55″W / 39.83083°N 85.91528°W / 39.83083; -85.91528CountryUnited StatesStateIndianaCountyHancockTownshipBuck CreekElevation856 ft (261 m)ZIP code
46140
FIPS code18-51390[2]GNIS feature ID439557[1]

Mount Comfort is an unincorporated community in Buck Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana.

History

A post office was established at Mount Comfort in 1851, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1956.[3]

Mount Comfort was platted as a town in about 1882, when the railroad was extended to that point.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Comfort, Indiana
  2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ "Hancock County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 17, 2014.
  4. ^ Richman, George J. (1916). History of Hancock County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions. Wm. Mitchell Printing Company. pp. 570.
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