Montpelier
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city in Indiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- County
- Blackford
- Township
- Harrison
- Mayor
- Bradley Neff
- Total
- 1.49 sq mi (3.87 km )
- Land
- 1.49 sq mi (3.87 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km ) 0%
- Elevation
- 879 ft (268 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 1,506
- Density
- 1,029.7/sq mi (397.57/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( EDT )
- Fips code
- 18-50796
- Website
- montpelier .in .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city in the United States
- Official name
- Montpelier
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Blackford County
- Population
- 1540
- Area
- 3.992569
- Elevation
- 265
- Official website
- montpelier-indiana.com
- Image
- Montpelier IN Chief Godfroy.jpg
- Households
- 798
- Dialing code
- 765
Show 5 more facts
- postal code
- 47359
- Commons category
- Montpelier, Indiana
- P8168
- Bucktooth tetra
- water as percent of area
- 0
- per capita income
- 25024
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Montpelier /mɒntˈpiːliər/ is a city in Harrison Township, Blackford County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. This small rural community, the county's first to be platted, was established by settlers from Vermont, and is named after Vermont's capital city of Montpelier.
Montpelier was a central participant in the Indiana Gas Boom, as natural gas was discovered near the community in 1887. More importantly, the county's first successful oil well was drilled on the south side of Montpelier in 1890. Its population quickly grew from 808 in 1890 to about 6,500 by 1896. The Gas Boom, mostly an oil boom for Montpelier, gradually ended during the first decade of the 20th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Montpelier” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.