Monitor, Indiana
human settlement in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States
Monitor is a small unincorporated community in Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
History
The town's original name was Cynthyana.
A post office was established at Monitor in 1864, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1902.
The former Monitor High School, since closed to school consolidation, fielded a basketball team which won a sectional championship in 1943 despite the community's small size. They defeated Lafayette Jefferson, who would go on to set a state record by winning the next 29 consecutive sectional championships between 1944 and 1972.
The former Monitor schoolhouse was used as a drug addiction treatment facility until 2007. In 2010 it was set on fire in an arson incident.
The public source identifies “Monitor, Indiana” as human settlement in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Monitor, Indiana and human.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6900461. Authority coordinates are 40.420, -86.756. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1864, 1902, 1943 and 1944.
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This entry incorporates text from “Monitor, Indiana” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.