# Alert, Indiana

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**Alert** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Jackson Township](/source/Jackson_Township,_Decatur_County,_Indiana), [Decatur County](/source/Decatur_County,_Indiana), [Indiana](/source/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

1. ["U.S. Census website"](https://www.census.gov). [United States Census Bureau](/source/United_States_Census_Bureau). Retrieved 2008-01-31.

1. Harding, Lewis Albert (1915). [*History of Decatur County, Indiana: Its People, Industries and Institutions*](https://archive.org/details/historyofdecatur01hard). B.F. Bowen. pp. [132](https://archive.org/details/historyofdecatur01hard/page/132)

1. [*Railroad map of Indiana*](https://www.loc.gov/item/98688475/). Indiana State Board of Tax Commissioners. 1896. Retrieved May 4, 2026. – via Library of Congress.

1. ["Southern Indiana Railroad Freighthouse"](https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/20ba6977-41dd-490f-a4e8-c1c64857823d). *National Register of Historic Places Registration Form*. National Park Service. Retrieved May 4, 2026.

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