Lewisville, Owen County, Indiana

Lewisville, Indiana
Unincorporated Community
Lewisville, Indiana
Coordinates: 39°28′16″N 86°37′55″W / 39.47111°N 86.63194°W / 39.47111; -86.63194Coordinates: 39°28′16″N 86°37′55″W / 39.47111°N 86.63194°W / 39.47111; -86.63194
Country	United States
State	Indiana
County	Owen
Elevation	771 ft (235 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code	47456
Area code(s)	812
GNIS feature ID	0437808^[1]

Lewisville is an unincorporated community in the northeast corner of Harrison Township, Owen County, Indiana, United States. It lies near the intersection of County Road 700 East (aka Drunkards Pike) and West Lewisville Road, which is a community about twenty miles northeast of the city of Spencer, the county seat.^[2] Its elevation is 771 feet (235 m), and it is located at 39°28′16″N 86°37′55″W / 39.47111°N 86.63194°W / 39.47111; -86.63194 (39.4711579 -86.6319463).^[1] This community lies on the border of Owen County and Morgan County.

History

The community was named in honor of a family of early settlers.^[3]

The Shenandoah Flying Field Airport is about five miles directly south of this community, and it is located on County Road 700 East (aka Drunkards Pike) just south of Watson Circle on the west bank of Butler Creek at 39°24′56″N 86°38′7″W / 39.41556°N 86.63528°W / 39.41556; -86.63528 (39.4155586 -86.6351400).^[4]
The Ellis Lake Dam is about three miles directly south of this community, and it is located on Ellis Lake Road, just west of County Road 700 East (aka Drunkards Pike) at 39°26′24″N 86°38′24″W / 39.44000°N 86.64000°W / 39.44000; -86.64000 (39.4400466 -86.6400021).^[5]

1 2 "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 14 February 1979. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
↑ Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer 3rd ed. (3 ed.), Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, p. 44, ISBN 0-89933-319-2
↑ Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...was named for a local pioneer family.
↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 1 October 1982. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 1 October 1982. Retrieved 9 September 2015.

Municipalities and communities of Morgan County, Indiana, United States

County seat: Martinsville

City	Martinsville

Towns	Bethany Brooklyn Monrovia Mooresville Morgantown Paragon

Townships	Adams Ashland Baker Brown Clay Green Gregg Harrison Jackson Jefferson Madison Monroe Ray Washington

CDP	Painted Hills

Other unincorporated communities	Adams Allman Banta‡ Beech Grove Bluffs Briarwood Brookmoor Browns Crossing Bunker Hill Centerton Champlin Meadows Cope Crestview Heights Crown Center Eminence Exchange Fewell Rhoades Fields Five Points Fox Hill Gasburg Hall Hyndsdale Lake Hart Landersdale Lewisville‡ Little Point Mahalasville Maxwell McDaniel Miller Plano Potato Mound Prather Ridgewood Shelburne Stines Mill Corner Sundown Manor Wakeland Waverly Waverly Woods Whitaker Wilbur Willowbrook Estates Wiser Wolff Woodcrest Young

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Municipalities and communities of Owen County, Indiana, United States

County seat: Spencer

Towns	Gosport Spencer

Townships	Clay Franklin Harrison Jackson Jefferson Jennings Lafayette Marion Montgomery Morgan Taylor Washington Wayne

Unincorporated communities	Adel Alaska Arney Atkinsonville Braysville Carp Cataract Coal City Cuba Cunot Daggett Denmark Devore Farmers Freedom Freeman Hickory Corner Hubbell Jordan Lewisville‡ Marion Mills New Hope Patricksburg Pottersville Quincy Romona Silex Smithville Southport Vandalia Vilas Wallace Junction Whitehall

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