North Madison is a neighborhood of

Madison, Indiana Madison is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Indiana, United States, along the Ohio River. As of the 2010 United States Census its population was 11,967. Over 55,000 people live within of downtown Madison. Madison is the large ...

, in the

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History

North Madison 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 1846. A post office was established at North Madison in 1848, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1957. In 1952 North Madison was annexed, becoming a neighborhood of Madison, which aided in providing city services to new businesses started in the area.North Madison was once a Sleepy Town
By Phil Cole. Madison Courier, 25 July 2002. Accessed 3 April 2024. A tornado in 1974 destroyed a number of buildings in the neighborhood.

References

Populated places in Jefferson County, Indiana {{JeffersonCountyIN-geo-stub