Official Name: | Bennetts Switch, Indiana |
Pushpin Map: | Indiana#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Bennetts Switch |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Miami |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Deer Creek |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.40 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.40 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.0 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 40.5872°N -86.11°W |
Elevation Ft: | 817 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 46901 (Kokomo) |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 2830463 |
Bennetts Switch is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Deer Creek Township, Miami County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Bennetts Switch (historically spelled with the apostrophe, "Bennett's Switch") was laid out shortly after the Lake Erie and Western Railroad was built through the settlement.[2] The community was named for landowner Baldwin M. Bennett, a native of New York. A post office was established at Bennetts Switch in 1862, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1935.[3]
Bennetts Switch is in southwestern Miami County, along Indiana State Road 18, less than a mile east of U.S. Route 31. SR 18 leads east to Converse and west 4miles to Galveston. Peru, the Miami county seat, is to the north-northeast, while Kokomo is 7miles to the south in Howard County.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bennetts Switch CDP has an area of 0.4sqmi, all land. Russell Ditch forms the southern edge of the community; it flows northwest to Deer Creek, which runs west to the Wabash River at Delphi.