New Santa Fe is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Butler Township,
Miami County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
.
History
New Santa Fe had its start when the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad was extended to that point, missing the older town of
Santa Fe, from which the new community took its name. The
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bear ...
for New Santa Fe is dated 1902.
Geography
New Santa Fe is located at .
References
Unincorporated communities in Miami County, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Indiana
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