Thorntown
Thorntown is a town in Sugar Creek Township, Boone County, Indiana. The population was 1,432 at the time of the 2020 census. Thorntown is located in northwestern Boone County, about halfway between Lafayette and Indianapolis.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Schanlaub, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,580 residents
- Description: human settlement in Boone County, Indiana, United States of America
- Also known as: “Thorntown, IN” and “Thorntown, Indiana”
- Postal code: 46071
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hazelrigg and Colfax.
Hazelrigg
Hamlet
Hazelrigg is an unincorporated town in Jefferson Township, Boone County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Hazelrigg is situated 4 miles southeast of Thorntown.
Colfax
Village
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
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. Colfax is situated 6 miles northwest of Thorntown.
Thorntown
- Categories: town in the United States, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Sugar Creek Township, Boone, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.12948° or 40° 7′ 46″ northLongitude
-86.60667° or 86° 36′ 24″ westPopulation
1,580Elevation
853 feet (260 metres)Open location code
86GM49HV+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 153802318OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4927194Wikidata ID
Q3299809
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Thorntown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثورنتاون”
- Basque: “Thorntown”
- Catalan: “Thorntown”
- Cebuano: “Thorntown”
- Chechen: “Торнтаун”
- Chinese: “Thorntown”
- Chinese: “桑敦 (印地安納州)”
- Chinese: “桑敦”
- Dutch: “Thorntown”
- French: “Thorntown”
- German: “Thorntown”
- Gilaki: “ثؤرنتن (اينديانا)”
- Gilaki: “ثؤرنتن”
- Haitian: “Thorntown, Indiana”
- Haitian: “Thorntown”
- Hungarian: “Thorntown”
- Irish: “Thorntown”
- Italian: “Thorntown”
- Ladin: “Thorntown”
- Mazanderani: “ترونتاؤن”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thorntown”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thorntown”
- Norwegian: “Thorntown”
- Polish: “Thorntown”
- Portuguese: “Thorntown”
- Serbian: “Thorntown”
- Serbian: “Торнтаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thorntown, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thorntown”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورنتوون، ایندیانا”
- Spanish: “Thorntown”
- Tatar: “Торнтаун”
- Ukrainian: “Торнтаун”
- Uzbek: “Thorntown”
- Uzbek: “Тҳорнтоwн”
- Volapük: “Thorntown”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thorntown Heritage Museum and Old Cemetery.
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