Americus
Americus is a small census-designated place in Washington Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The community is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 423 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Tippecanoe County, Indiana
- Also known as: “Americus, IN” and “Americus, Indiana”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buck Creek and Heath.
Buck Creek
Hamlet
Buck Creek is an unincorporated census-designated place in Washington Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Buck Creek is situated 2½ miles south of Americus.
Heath
Hamlet
Heath was a small town, now extinct, in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Heath is situated 4½ miles south of Americus.
Springboro
Hamlet
Springboro is an unincorporated community in Prairie Township, White County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Springboro is situated 5 miles north of Americus.
Americus
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Washington Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.52587° or 40° 31′ 33″ northLongitude
-86.75806° or 86° 45′ 29″ westPopulation
423Elevation
558 feet (170 metres)Open location code
86GMG6GR+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 153809655OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4917583Wikidata ID
Q4745697
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Americus” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Americus”
- Chechen: “Америкус”
- Chinese: “阿梅里克斯 (印地安納州)”
- Chinese: “阿梅里克斯”
- French: “Americus”
- German: “Americus”
- Gilaki: “آمریکوس (اينديانا)”
- Gilaki: “آمریکوس”
- Irish: “Americus”
- Italian: “Americus”
- Ladin: “Americus”
- Persian: “امریکاس، ایندیانا”
- Persian: “امریکاس”
- Polish: “Americus”
- Serbian: “Америкус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Americus, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Americus”
- South Azerbaijani: “آمریکوس، ایندیانا”
- Spanish: “Americus”
- Tatar: “Америкус”
- Ukrainian: “Америкус”
- Volapük: “Americus (IN)”
- Volapük: “Americus, IN”
- Volapük: “Americus, Indiana”
- Volapük: “Americus”
- Welsh: “Americus, Indiana”
- Welsh: “Americus”
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