Official Name: | Marshfield |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community and Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana Warren County#Indiana#USA |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Warren |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Steuben |
Established Title: | Founded |
Established Date: | 1857 |
Named For: | Marshfield, Massachusetts |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 0.16 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 41 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 40.2506°N -87.4519°W |
Elevation Ft: | 692 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 47993 |
Area Code: | 765 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 2806525 |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 0.41 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 0.16 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 256.25 |
Population Density Km2: | 99.15 |
Marshfield is a small unincorporated community in Steuben Township, Warren County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
The town of Marshfield was platted on May 22, 1857, and named for Marshfield, Massachusetts, the home of statesman Daniel Webster.[2] A post office was established on April 6, 1857, which operated until 1989. In 1870, the population was 150 and, by 1900, it had grown to 250. In the late 1800s, the town had a dry goods store, a hotel, three churches, three saloons, two blacksmith shops, a grain warehouse, a wagon and carriage manufactory, a grocery store, a drug store and three physicians.[3]
In 2007, Marshfield consisted of a number of private residences, a grain elevator, a church and a body shop.
Marshfield is located in open farmland on County Road 450 South, about west of State Road 63, at an elevation of . Chesapeake Creek begins just east of town, and an early village named Chesapeake once stood about to the east. A Norfolk Southern Railway line runs along the east side of town, from Danville, Illinois, in the southwest to Lafayette in the northeast; the line carries about 45 freight trains per day.[4]