Do you know of Indian Beach ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Indian Beach. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Indian Beach.

Our sources for Indian Beach (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Indian Beach other than they indicate that Indian Beach would be found somewhere in Sarasota County, Florida.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1906 and closed  in 1907.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Indian Beach ...

We found four communities that share the name Indian Beach.

Within Florida, the name Indian Beach is unique.

Beyond Florida, we know of another four communities that are located throughout in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Delaware
    • Sussex County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of Indian Beach [Sussex County].
  • Louisiana
    • Jefferson Parish
    • Please visit our profile page for the Louisiana community of Indian Beach [Jefferson Parish].
  • North Carolina
    • Carteret County
    • Please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Indian Beach [Carteret County].
  • Washington
    • Island County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Indian Beach [Island County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Indian Beach ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Indian Beach:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Southeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 1999
(Available from Amazon.com)

The FIPS database contains an entry for Indian Beach.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 12/33400   (Place Name: Indian Beach)

County: Sarasota     (FIPS State/County: 12/115)

Class: U4

Identifies a populated place (ie- Indian Beach) which is wholly or substantially located within the boundaries of an incorporated place with a different name. The Part of Code identifies the incorporated place.

More Orphans in  Sarasota County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Sarasota County.