Owensburg is an

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and

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(CDP) in Jackson Township, Greene County,

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, United States. It was named in honor of the Owens family of early settlers. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 406.

Geography

Owensburg is located in southeastern Greene County at . The southern border of the CDP follows the Martin County line, and the western edge of the CDP follows

Indiana State Road 45 State Road 45 is a state route from Bean Blossom, Indiana to Scotland, Indiana in the southern half of the state. Route description From Bean Blossom and through Brown County, State Road 45 is a narrow, shoulderless two-lane road that passes b ...

. State Road 58 passes through the center of Owensburg, leading east to

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and west with State Road 45 to

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and

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near

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. State Road 45 leads north from Owensburg to Interstate 69 and to Bloomington. According to the

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, the Owensburg CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.13%, is water. The center of Owensburg is in the valley of Town Branch, which flows east to Indian Creek, a tributary of East Fork of the White River and part of the

Wabash River The Wabash River ( French: Ouabache) is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 13, 2011 river that drains most of the state of Indiana in the United States. It flows fro ...

watershed.

Demographics

References

Census-designated places in Greene County, Indiana Census-designated places in Indiana Bloomington metropolitan area, Indiana {{GreeneCountyIN-geo-stub