Official Name: | Pikes Peak, Indiana |
Mapsize: | 120px |
Pushpin Map: | USA Indiana Brown County |
Pushpin Label: | Pikes Peak |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Brown County |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Indiana |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Brown |
Subdivision Type3: | Township |
Subdivision Name3: | Van Buren |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Coordinates: | 39.1292°N -86.1414°W |
Elevation Ft: | 604 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 47448 |
Area Code: | 812 & 930 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 18-59814[1] |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 449710 |
Pikes Peak is an unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, Brown County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
According to legend, James Ward was intent on moving to Colorado. He wrote on the side of his conestoga wagon "Pikes Peak or Bust". Miller made it out of Columbus to the area now known as Pikes Peak. To save face he called his store Pikes Peak and the name stuck.[2]
A post office was established at Pikes Peak in 1868, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907.[3]