{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{cleanup-rewrite|date=February 2025|The Lewis Publishing ''Biographical''&zwj;'s entry for Penn Township on p. 259 says that this is a hamlet, not this GNIS "community" drivel, that was originally intended to be Baalbec but they mis-spelled it}} {{Infobox settlement <!--More parameter fields are available for use at Template:Infobox Settlement--> <!--See the Table at Infobox Settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info ----------------> |official_name = Balbec, Indiana |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |motto = <!-- images and maps -----------> |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |image_dot_map = |dot_mapsize = |dot_map_caption = |dot_x = |dot_y = |pushpin_map = Indiana#USA |pushpin_label = Balbec |pushpin_label_position = |pushpin_map_caption = |pushpin_mapsize = <!-- Location ------------------> |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Indiana |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = Jay |subdivision_type3 = Township |subdivision_name3 = Penn <!-- Politics -----------------> |established_title = |established_date = <!-- Area ---------------------> |area_total_km2 = |area_land_km2 = <!-- Population ------------------------> |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total = <!-- General information ---------------> |timezone = |utc_offset = |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|40|31|51|N|85|08|56|W|region:US-IN|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> |elevation_ft = 879 |founder = |named_for = <!-- Area/postal codes & others --------> |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 47326 |area_code = |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 18-03241<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |publisher=United States Census Bureau |accessdate=2008-01-31 |title=U.S. Census website }}</ref> |blank1_name = GNIS feature ID |blank1_info = 430443<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|430443}}</ref> |website = |footnotes = }} '''Balbec''' is an unincorporated community in Penn Township, Jay County, Indiana.

==History== A post office was established at Balbec in 1865, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1919.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Jay | title=Jay County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=23 October 2014}}</ref> The community was likely named after Baalbek, in Lebanon.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baker|first=Ronald L.|title=From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History|url=https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake|url-access=registration|date=October 1995|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-32866-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/fromneedmoretopr00bake/page/n74 59]|quote=Supposedly the name, sometimes rendered as Balbee, is a misspelling of Baalbek...}}</ref>

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