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Welcome to Barbee ...

Barbee is located in Kosciusko County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Barbee, you might consider that their post office opened in 1898.

Barbee is 840 feet [256 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Barbee lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel west from Barbee (for example, toward Hamlet), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT).

Communities Also Named Barbee ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Barbee - it's located in Mississippi.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Barbee.

Communities near Barbee ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Barbee.

  • Columbia City
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Nappanee
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Winona Lake
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Ligonier
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Syracuse
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Albion
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • South Whitley
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Milford
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Milford is located in Kosciusko County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,551 people
  • Topeka
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Pierceton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Barbee. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Barbee.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Barbee. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Barbee.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Barbee. See our Newspapers Page for Barbee.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Barbee ...

Looking for more information about Barbee? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Barbee, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Barbee.

Adding Barbee to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Barbee in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Barbee was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Barbee post office opened in 1898. The Barbee post office closed in 1898.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Barbee.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Indiana's counties, including Kosciusko, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Barbee - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/