Fort Ouiatenon Park

Fort Ouiatenon Park is a park in Wabash Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana. Fort Ouiatenon Park is situated nearby to the museum Ouiatenon Blockhouse, as well as near Sand Ridge Cemetery.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Purdue University Airport and Earhart Hall.

Purdue University Airport

Aerodrome

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Purdue University Airport is a public-use airport in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States. It is owned by Purdue University, and is 2 nautical miles southwest of the central business district of Lafayette, Indiana, in West Lafayette.

Earhart Hall is one of the sixteen residential halls within Purdue University in Indiana, located on 1275 First Street, facing First Street Tower and behind Shreve Hall. Earhart Hall is situated 2½ miles northeast of Fort Ouiatenon Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ouiatanon and Shadeland.

Ouiatanon

Locality

Ouiatenon was a dwelling place of members of the Wea tribe of Native Americans. The name Ouiatenon, also variously given as Ouiatanon, Oujatanon, Ouiatano or other similar forms, is a French rendering of a term from the Wea dialect of the Miami-Illinois language which means "place of the people of the whirlpool", an ethnonym for the Wea.

Shadeland

Village

Shadeland is a town in Union Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 census, Shadeland had a population of 1,757. It is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Shadeland is situated 2½ miles south of Fort Ouiatenon Park.

West Lafayette

Town

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West Lafayette is a city in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States. The population was 44,595 at the 2020 census. West Lafayette sits across the Wabash River from its sister city, Lafayette, and is a college town, home to Purdue University. West Lafayette is situated 3 miles northeast of Fort Ouiatenon Park.

Fort Ouiatenon Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Wabash Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.4065° or 40° 24′ 23″ north

Longitude

-86.96435° or 86° 57′ 52″ west

Open location code

86GMC24P+H7

OpenStreetMap ID

way 480546757

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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Highlights include Ouiatenon Blockhouse and Sand Ridge Cemetery.

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