Do you know of South Bethany ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about South Bethany. 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 South Bethany.

Our sources for South Bethany (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 South Bethany other than they indicate that South Bethany would be found somewhere in Bartholomew County, Indiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1861 and closed  in 1903.

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 South Bethany ...

We found one communities that share the name South Bethany.

Within Indiana, the name South Bethany is unique.

Beyond Indiana, there is another community also named South Bethany in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Delaware
    • Sussex County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Delaware community of South Bethany [Sussex County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for South Bethany ...

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

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

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for South Bethany - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

The FIPS database contains an entry for South Bethany.

Referenced FIPS Records ...

FIPS Code: 18/71018   (Place Name: South Bethany (Bethany))

County: Bartholomew     (FIPS State/County: 18/005)

Class: U8

Identifies a populated place (in this case, South Bethany) located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or CDP (Census Designated Place) but whose name has not been verified as authoritative by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

More Orphans in  Bartholomew 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 Bartholomew County.