Alert is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Decatur County, Indiana.
History
Alert was laid out in 1886.[3]
An 1896 railroad map of Indiana shows Alert and a nearby point labeled “Sta.” along a rail line.[4]
A freighthouse at Alert was dated to 1898 in a National Register nomination for the Southern Indiana Railroad Freighthouse.[5]
References
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alert, Indiana
- ^ “U.S. Census website”. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ Harding, Lewis Albert (1915). History of Decatur County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions. B.F. Bowen. pp. 132.
- ^ Railroad map of Indiana (Map). Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners. 1896. Retrieved May 4, 2026 – via Library of Congress.
- ^ Southern Indiana Railroad Freighthouse. National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (Report). National Park Service. Retrieved May 4, 2026.
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