unincorporated community
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Pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
U.S. state
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Indiana
Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...
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History
A church at Zoar was built in 1871, and its schoolhouse was built in 1897. A post office was established at Zoar in 1900, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907. The community was likely named after
Zoar, Ohio
Zoar is a village (United States)#Ohio, village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The population was 172 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The community was founded in 1817 by Radical Pietism, Radical Pietists as a utopia ...