Sellersburg, Indiana
Sellersburg is a town located within Silver Creek Township, Clark County, Indiana, Silver Creek Township, Clark County, Indiana, Clark County, Indiana, United States. It had a population of 9,310 at time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Sellersburg is located along Interstate 65 in Indiana, Interstate 65, about 15 minutes north of Louisville, Kentucky, Louisville. History Sellersburg takes its name from its founder, Moses Sellers, who laid out the town in 1846. Sellersburg incorporated in 1890. The first post office at Sellersburg was established in 1854, at which time the name was spelled Sellersburgh. Geography Sellersburg grew up at (38.386823, -85.757543). According to the 2010 census, Sellersburg has a total area of , of which (or 99.19%) is land and (or 0.8%) is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 6,128 people, 2,443 households, and 1,697 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 2,595 housing u ...
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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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