Colfax
Colfax is a town in Perry Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States. The population was 691 at the 2010 census. The town was originally known as Midway since it was a halfway point on the IC&L Railroad between Chicago and Louisville.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 781 residents
- Description: town in Perry Township, Clinton County, Indiana, United States
- Also known as: “Colfax, IN”, “Colfax, Indiana”, and “Midway”
- Postal code: 46035
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bowers and Fickle.
Bowers
Hamlet
Bowers is an unincorporated community in Sugar Creek Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Bowers is situated 4 miles southwest of Colfax.
Fickle
Hamlet
Fickle is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Clinton County, Indiana. Fickle is situated 4½ miles north of Colfax.
Manson
Hamlet
Manson is an unincorporated community in Perry Township, Clinton County, Indiana. The town is named for Mahlon Dickerson Manson, a general in the American Civil War and Lieutenant Governor of Indiana. Manson is situated 5 miles northeast of Colfax.
Colfax
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Perry Township, Clinton, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.19504° or 40° 11′ 42″ northLongitude
-86.66723° or 86° 40′ 2″ westPopulation
781Elevation
846 feet (258 metres)Open location code
86GM58WM+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 153763252OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4919175Wikidata ID
Q3293466
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Colfax” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كولفاكس”
- Basque: “Colfax”
- Catalan: “Colfax”
- Cebuano: “Colfax”
- Chechen: “Колфакс”
- Chinese: “Colfax”
- Chinese: “科爾法克斯 (印地安納州)”
- Chinese: “科爾法克斯”
- Czech: “Colfax”
- Dutch: “Colfax”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلده كولفاكس”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كولفاكس”
- French: “Colfax”
- German: “Colfax”
- Gilaki: “کولفکس (اينديانا)”
- Gilaki: “کولفکس”
- Haitian: “Colfax, Indiana”
- Haitian: “Colfax”
- Hungarian: “Colfax”
- Italian: “Colfax”
- Ladin: “Colfax”
- Mazanderani: “کولفاکس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Colfax”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Colfax”
- Norwegian: “Colfax”
- Polish: “Colfax”
- Portuguese: “Colfax”
- Russian: “Колфакс”
- Serbian: “Колфакс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colfax, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Colfax”
- Slovak: “Colfax”
- Spanish: “Colfax”
- Tatar: “Колфакс”
- Ukrainian: “Колфакс”
- Urdu: “مڈوے، کلنٹن کاؤنٹی، انڈیانا”
- Urdu: “مڈوے”
- Uzbek: “Colfax”
- Uzbek: “Cолфах”
- Volapük: “Colfax”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Colfax Community Building and Colfax Post Office.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Colfax”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.