Santa Claus
Santa Claus — America's Christmas home town — is a village of 2,600 people in Southwestern Indiana. The town is a destination for Christmas-related activities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sarah Afshar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Sarah Afshar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 2,470 residents
- Description: town in Carter, Clay, and Harrison townships in Spencer County, Indiana, United States
- Also known as: “Santa Claus, IN”, “Santa Claus, Indiana”, “Santa Fe”, “Santa Fe, IN”, “Santa Fen, Indiana”, and “Santaclaus”
- Postal code: 47579
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari and Thunderbird.
Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari
Theme park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Holiday World & Splashin' Safari, originally known as Santa Claus Land, is a theme park and water park located in Santa Claus, Indiana. The park opened in 1946 and features rides, live entertainment, and games.
Thunderbird
Roller coaster
Thunderbird is a steel roller coaster located in the Thanksgiving section of Holiday World & Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard, the ride opened to the public on April 25, 2015, as the eighth Wing Coaster in existence and the fourth in the United States.
Raven
Roller coaster
Photo: Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0.
Raven is a wooden roller coaster in Holiday World & Splashin' Safari's Halloween section in Santa Claus, Indiana. It was designed and built in 1994 by the now-defunct Custom Coasters International, with the help of Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mariah Hill.
Mariah Hill
Hamlet
Mariah Hill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Carter Township, Spencer County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. Mariah Hill is situated 2½ miles north of Santa Claus.
Santa Claus
- Categories: town in Indiana and locality
- Location: Carter Township, Spencer, Southwestern Indiana, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.1276° or 38° 7′ 39″ northLongitude
-86.9124° or 86° 54′ 45″ westPopulation
2,470Elevation
472 feet (144 metres)United Nations Location Code
US SC6Open location code
86CM43HQ+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 9261321874OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Santa Claus from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Santa Claus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سانتا كلوز”
- Armenian: “Սանտա Կլաուս”
- Basque: “Santa Claus”
- Catalan: “Santa Claus”
- Cebuano: “Santa Claus”
- Chechen: “Санта-Клаус”
- Chinese: “Santa Claus”
- Chinese: “聖克勞斯”
- Chinese: “聖塔克勞斯”
- Czech: “Santa Claus”
- Dagbani: “Santa Claus”
- Danish: “Santa Claus”
- Dutch: “Santa Claus”
- French: “Santa Claus”
- German: “Santa Claus”
- Gilaki: “سانتا کلاوس (اينديانا)”
- Gilaki: “سانتا کلاوس”
- Haitian: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
- Haitian: “Santa Claus”
- Hungarian: “Santa Claus”
- Italian: “Santa Claus”
- Japanese: “サンタクロース (インディアナ州)”
- Japanese: “サンタクロース”
- Ladin: “Santa Claus”
- Mazanderani: “سانتا کلائوس”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Santa Claus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Santa Claus”
- Norwegian: “Santa Claus”
- Polish: “Santa Claus”
- Portuguese: “Santa Claus”
- Russian: “Санта Клаус, Индиана”
- Russian: “Санта Клаус”
- Serbian: “Santa Claus”
- Serbian: “Санта Клоз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Santa Claus”
- Slovak: “Santa Claus”
- Spanish: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
- Spanish: “Santa Claus”
- Swedish: “Santa Claus, Indiana”
- Swedish: “Santa Claus”
- Tatar: “Санта-Клаус”
- Ukrainian: “Санта-Клаус”
- Uzbek: “Santa Claus”
- Volapük: “Santa Claus”
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