Atkinsonville, Indiana
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Atkinsonville is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Morgan Township, Owen County, in the U.S. state of
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 ...
.


History

Atkinsonville was
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 Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1850, and named for its founder, Stephen Atkinson. A post office was established at Atkinsonville in 1854, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907.


Geography

Atkinsonville is located at .


References

Unincorporated communities in Owen County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana {{OwenCountyIN-geo-stub