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Pleasant View, Indiana

human settlement in Indiana, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ22059141 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pleasant View is an unincorporated community in Moral Township, Shelby County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

History

Pleasant View was laid out and platted in 1836 as a stagecoach stop on the Michigan turnpike. Two old variant names of the community were Wrights and Doblestown. A post office was established under the name Wrights in 1828, and was renamed to Doblestown in 1837. It was renamed again to Pleasant View in 1841 and was discontinued in 1859.

Demographics

The United States Census Bureau defined Pleasant View as a census designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey.

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The public source identifies “Pleasant View, Indiana” as human settlement in Indiana, United States of America. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pleasant, View and Indiana.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1836, 1828, 1837, 1841—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pleasant, View and Indiana providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22059141. Authority coordinates are 39.663, -85.942. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1836, 1828, 1837 and 1841.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pleasant View, 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.