Monmouth, Indiana

Monmouth is an unincorporated community in Root Township, Adams County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.[2]

For other places with the same name, see Monmouth (disambiguation).
Monmouth, Indiana
Unincorporated community
Adams County's location in Indiana
Monmouth
Location in Adams County
Coordinates: 40°52′04″N 84°56′40″W
CountryUnited States
StateIndiana
CountyAdams
TownshipRoot
Elevation
801 ft (244 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
46733
FIPS code18-50130[1]
GNIS feature ID439330

History

A post office was established at Monmouth in 1839, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904.[3] The community was named after Monmouth County, New Jersey.[4]

Geography

Monmouth is located at 40°52′04″N 84°56′40″W.

gollark: > I never tried it. It's nice that it has these safety features but I prefer C++ still. > If I want to be sure that my program is free of bugs, I can write a formal specification and do a > correctness proof with the hoare calculus in some theorem proofer (People did that for the seL4 microkernel, which is free from bugs under some assumptions and used in satellites, nuclear power plants and such)Didn't doing that for seL4 require several hundred thousand lines of proof code?
gollark: Most countries have insanely convoluted tax law so I assume it's possible.
gollark: Hmm, so you need to obtain a hypercomputer of some sort to write your tax forms such that they cannot plausibly be checked?
gollark: What if it's somehow really easy to find *a* solution to something, but not specific ones, and hard to check the validity of a specific maybe-solution? Is that possible?
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References
  1. "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. "Monmouth, Indiana". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  3. "Adams County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  4. Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3.



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