The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBusseron Creek is a 50 miles (80 km) long creek that runs south-westward through Sullivan County, Indiana and Knox County, Indiana and that is a tributary of the Wabash River. Old Busseron Creek enters the Wabash at 38°50′17″N 87°31′34″W and is the old course of the creek before it was re-routed and straightened for flood control purposes, leaving (but not connecting to) the new course at 38°56′02″N 87°30′11″W having to that point run beside the current Busseron over several meanders, the re-routing having left behind several oxbow lakes, from headwaters at 38°56′35″N 87°27′58″W.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,393 to 1,268 (-9%). Half of its homes were built before 1976.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Busseron yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Busseron’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Busseron is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Busseron has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Enoco Coal Mine in Washington, 8.2 miles away.
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.