Winesburg, Indiana

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Winesburg, Indiana
City
City of Winesburg
Nicknames: The City of Ditches,
The Cloud Sump City, The Necropolis City
Location in Montgomery County.
Location in Montgomery County.
Location of Winesburg in Whitley County.
Coordinates: 41°15′37″N 85°35′30″W
Country United States
State Indiana
County Whitley
Township Etna-Troy
Elevation 840 ft (256 m)
Time Zone
Summer (DST)
UTC-5 (Eastern [EST])
UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP Code 46000
Area code(s) 260

Welcome, gentle reader, to the modest home of Winesburg, Indiana, on the World Wide Web.

History

The City of Winesburg, Indiana's Land Acknowledgement Statement

The City of Winesburg is located within the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people, who along with other indigenous groups ceded these lands to the United States in the first Treaty of Greenville in 1795. The Miami people were forcibly removed from these homelands in 1846. Winesburg, Indiana, recognizes The Miami Nation of Indians in Indiana and their Tribal Complex in downtown Peru, Indiana. We support the restoration of federal tribal recognition (illegally withdrawn in 1897) and encourage all to visit The Tribal Complex or its Facebook Page: facebook.com/cranesnestmni. Also see: The Shawnee Tribal page at shawnee-nsn.gov and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma at miamination.com.

Geography

The West Fork of the Fork River in Winesburg, Indiana.
The West Fork of the Fork River in Winesburg, Indiana.
At one point, the West Fork of the Fork River disappears underground only to emerge north of the city of Winesburg.

The West Fork of the Fork River brought early settlers to Winesburg, Indiana.

Demographics

Historical population
Census Pop.
1860 887
1870 1,663 87.5%
1880 2,244 34.9%
1890 3,027 34.9%
1900 2,975 −1.7%
1910 3,448 15.9%
1920 3,499 1.5%
1930 3,805 8.7%
1940 4,219 10.9%
1950 4,745 12.5%
1960 4,803 1.2%
1970 4,911 2.2%
1980 5,091 3.7%
1990 5,706 12.1%
2000 7,077 24.0%
2010 8,750 23.6%
2019 (est.) 9,234 5.5%
U.S. Decennial Census

Economy

Factories, businesses, employers of note

A view of The State of Indiana Hair Dump located in an exhausted limestone quarry on the outskirts of Winesburg, Indiana. Most cut hair and beard trimmings of the state are transshipped to the Hair Dump for disposal, a consequence of the complicated hygienic statues of Indiana. A cottage industry manufacturing lockets with the discarded locks still thrives on the lips of the old quarry's rim.

Cultural institutions and points of interest

The Cloud Sump and Contrail Viewing Station: It is perhaps a quirk of topography, atmospheric conditions, proximity to the Great Lakes, glide paths of of near-by municipal airfields, or residue from the pharmaceutical crop dusting aeroplanes that has generated these amazing displays of congested clouds aloft of the the town of Winesburg, Indiana.

Sports

Parks and recreation

The Winesburg Park Board is responsible for the development and maintenance of all parks within the city limits.

pickleball
Descendants of Jeremy Butler serve up a pickle ball on the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts, Throw Park.
Swan Boats Parked on the West Fork of the Fork River.
Punting on the underground West Fork of the Fork River.


Government

Education

Media

Infrastructure

Notable citizens

Please see the main list of notable citizens over here.

Sister city

In popular culture

Winesburg, Indiana, was not the inspiration for Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life (1919). No, absolutely not.

References

  1. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (Boston: Tucknor and Fields, 1854).

Bibliography

  • Michael Martone, The Blue Guide to Indiana (Tuscaloosa, AL: Fiction Collective 2 [University of Alabama Press], 2001), ISBN 1-57366-095-7, OCLC 46401580.

External links

Sponsors

The enormous expense of the Winesburg, Indiana, Wiki could not be borne by the city's budget alone. According to the City Manager, JerCom Industries charges exactly €41,365 per annum to host the Wiki. To defray costs, W.INwikiAdmin begrudgingly added salesman to his multitudinous online responsibilities. The full list of sponsors is legally required to be a matter of public record and may be found here. Fortunately, Sunheart Metalworks stepped up and covered all but €4 of the annual cost.

Sunheart Metalworks

  • Horses shod
  • Plow points sharpened
  • Farm implements built and repaired
  • Accepting applications for apprentice smiths, with potential placement at the Sunheart Vocational School and Center for Transcendental Meditation

Serving the blacksmithing needs of the Winesburg vicinity since 1867.

General Smithing, Proprietor

House of Davis, Indiana