New Fairfield, Indiana

Coordinates: 39°30′25″N 84°58′21″W / 39.50694°N 84.97250°W / 39.50694; -84.97250
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New Fairfield, Indiana
FIPS code
18-52884[2]
GNIS feature ID440045[1]

New Fairfield is an unincorporated community in Fairfield Township, Franklin County, Indiana.

History

"Old" Fairfield was platted in 1815.[3] New Fairfield was started on higher ground in the 1970s when impounding of the Brookville Reservoir destroyed the former village of Old Fairfield.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: New Fairfield, Indiana
  2. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ Reifel, August Jacob (1915). History of Franklin County, Indiana. Windmill Publications. pp. 161.
  4. . When Brookville Reservoir was constructed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the village of Fairfield was razed, and this relocated village...