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Siberia, 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 authorityQ21197878 ↗
Source-derived summary

Siberia is an unincorporated community in Clark Township, Perry County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

History

Siberia was platted in 1869. According to legend, the town was originally going to be named Sabaria, after the place where Saint Martin of Tours was born. However, a Post Office Department employee designated the new community as Siberia, thinking "Sabaria" was a misspelling and the platter was referring to Siberia, a region of Russia, and the name stuck.

A post office was established at Siberia in 1883, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1983.

Editorial summary

“Siberia, Indiana” enters the record as human settlement in Indiana, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Siberia, Indiana and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1869, 1883, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Siberia, Indiana and human.
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“Siberia, Indiana” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Siberia, Indiana and human provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Q21197878. Authority coordinates are 38.238, -86.734. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1869, 1883 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Siberia, 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.