La Paz, Indiana

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in North Township. It lies in ZIP code area 46537. The Survey maps it on the La Paz quadrangle. 475 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

La Paz within Marshall County

Population over time

2 figures

La Paz fell from 561 to 475 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

Year	People	Change
2010	561
2020	475	-86 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1953 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Chicago quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS La Paz quadrangle1:24000
1972 USGS La Paz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Knox quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

In the county-history sources

12,504 words on this township

McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on North Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

WALNUT HILL, near the residence of Eb. Shirland, on the Michigan road, prior to the completion of the railroad throngh La Paz. was a post office and stopping place for the stage line between Plymouth and South Bend, at which the people of the neighborhood received their mail. But, upon the completion of the railroad, the post office was removed to La Paz, since which time its identity has become entirely lost. PLANK ROAD. Some twenty-five or thirty years ago the South Bend & Plymonth Plank Road Company put down an inferior plank road | mud and sand for some time after it was made, but the boards soon became broken and warped so that it became almost impassable, and after a few years, was entirely abandoned, and the boards

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on North Township - it names this place 1 more 1 time.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
La Paz Junction	0.7 miles	11
Harris	3.1 miles	11
Linkville	3.2 miles	11
Teegarden	3.7 miles	10
Lake of the Woods	5.1 miles	13
Tyner	6.1 miles	10
Plymouth	8.0 miles	11
Bremen	8.5 miles	13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on La Paz	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1818734	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 437489. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.