# Mace, Indiana

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**Mace** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) and [census-designated place](/source/Census-designated_place) (CDP) in [Walnut Township](/source/Walnut_Township,_Montgomery_County,_Indiana), [Montgomery County](/source/Montgomery_County,_Indiana), in the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [Indiana](/source/Indiana).[2]

## History

Mace, formerly called "Fredericksburg", was laid out in about 1840 by Frederick Long.[3] A post office was established at Mace in 1853, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1912.[4]

## Geography

Mace is located in eastern Montgomery County. It is bordered to the south by [Linnsburg](/source/Linnsburg,_Indiana). [U.S. Route 136](/source/U.S._Route_136) passes through the community, leading northwest 6 miles (10 km) to [Crawfordsville](/source/Crawfordsville,_Indiana), the [county seat](/source/County_seat), and southeast 10 miles (16 km) to [Jamestown](/source/Jamestown,_Indiana). Downtown [Indianapolis](/source/Indianapolis) is 39 miles (63 km) southeast of Mace.

According to the [U.S. Census Bureau](/source/U.S._Census_Bureau), the Mace CDP has an area of 0.23 square miles (0.60 km2), all land.[5] It is drained to the north by an unnamed tributary of the Walnut Fork of Sugar Creek, which flows northwest to Sugar Creek at Crawfordsville and is part of the [Wabash River](/source/Wabash_River) watershed.

## Demographics

The [United States Census Bureau](/source/United_States_Census_Bureau) delineated Mace as a [census designated place](/source/Census_designated_place) in the 2022 [American Community Survey](/source/American_Community_Survey).[6]

## References

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

1. Beckwith, Hiram Williams & Kennedy, P. S. (1881). [*History of Montgomery County, Together with Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley*](https://archive.org/details/historymontgome00flemgoog). H. H. Hill and N. Iddings. pp. [372](https://archive.org/details/historymontgome00flemgoog/page/n668)

1. ["Montgomery County"](http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Montgomery&searchtext=&pagenum=2). Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved June 15, 2017.

1. ["2022 U.S. Gazetteer Files: Indiana"](https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2022_Gazetteer/2022_gaz_place_18.txt). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 25, 2023.

1. ["2022 Geography Changes"](https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-and-geography-changes/2022/geography-changes.html). [United States Census Bureau](/source/United_States_Census_Bureau)

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