Thayer, Indiana
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Thayer 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 Lincoln Township, Newton County, in the
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of
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.


History

Thayer was laid out as a town in 1882. The community was named for a first settler. A post office has been in operation at Thayer since 1881. Thayer, along with Shelby, Sumava Resorts and other small
Kankakee River The Kankakee River is a tributary of the Illinois River, approximately long, in the Corn Belt, Central Corn Belt Plains of northwestern Indiana and northeastern Illinois in the United States. At one time, the river drained one of the largest we ...
communities, has historically had to contend with periodic flooding from the river.White sad at closing of Shelby plant where success story / nwi.com
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References

Unincorporated communities in Newton County, Indiana Unincorporated communities in Indiana {{NewtonCountyIN-geo-stub