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Welcome to Saint Louis Crossing ...

Saint Louis Crossing is located in Bartholomew County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Saint Louis Crossing, you might consider that their post office opened in 1862.

A typical abbreviation for Saint Louis Crossing: St. Louis Xing.

Saint Louis Crossing is 680 feet [207 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Saint Louis Crossing: 812 & 930<3>

Communities near Saint Louis Crossing ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Saint Louis Crossing.

  • Columbus
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Franklin
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Shelbyville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Greensburg
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Edinburgh
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Hope
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Hope is located in Bartholomew County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hope
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,248 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hope <4>
  • Trafalgar
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Westport
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Westport is located in Decatur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,416 people
  • Princes Lakes
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Princes Lakes is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princes Lakes
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,342 people
  • Saint Paul
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)

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 Saint Louis Crossing. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Saint Louis Crossing.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Saint Louis Crossing. 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 Saint Louis Crossing.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Saint Louis Crossing ...

Looking for more information about Saint Louis Crossing? 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 Saint Louis Crossing, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Saint Louis Crossing.

Adding Saint Louis Crossing to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Saint Louis Crossing 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 Saint Louis Crossing was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Saint Louis Crossing post office opened in 1862. The Saint Louis Crossing post office closed in 1974.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Saint Louis Crossing.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Indiana's counties, including Bartholomew, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Saint Louis Crossing - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 812 code has been Overlayed with the 930 area code. New phone numbers in the Saint Louis Crossing area will be assigned with one of these codes: 812 or 930. As a result, placing a call in the Saint Louis Crossing area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/