Clarks Hill, Indiana
Clarks Hill is a town in Lauramie Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 611 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The post office at Clarks Hill has been in operation since 1853. Geography Clarks Hill is located at (40.247036, -86.723863) in Lauramie Township, at an elevation of . According to the 2010 census, Clarks Hill has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 611 people, 230 households, and 164 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 270 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 97.9% White, 0.2% African American, 0.3% Native American, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.1% of the population. There were 230 households, of which 40.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.3% were married couples living toget ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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