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Gasburg, Indiana

unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ5526384 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gasburg is an unincorporated community in Monroe Township, Morgan County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

History

A post office was established at Gasburg in 1874, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1904.

Geography

Gasburg is located on Indiana State Road 42 between Monrovia and Mooresville.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gasburg, Indiana” as unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gasburg, Indiana and unincorporated.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1874, 1904—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gasburg, Indiana and unincorporated providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gasburg, Indiana”, the useful work is to connect “unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5526384. Authority coordinates are 39.594, -86.437. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1874 and 1904.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Gasburg, Indiana”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Gasburg, Indiana primary sources, Gasburg, Indiana archive and Gasburg research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Gasburg, Indiana”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Gasburg, 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.