# Mongo, Indiana

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**Mongo** is an [unincorporated community](/source/Unincorporated_area) in [Springfield Township](/source/Springfield_Township,_LaGrange_County,_Indiana), [LaGrange County](/source/LaGrange_County,_Indiana), [Indiana](/source/Indiana). The population in 2010 was 105.[3]

## History

Mongo was originally called Mongoquinong, and under the latter name was laid out in 1840.[4] Mongoquinong was later shortened to Mongo. Although *An Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana* (1874) translates the native name as 'Big Squaw Village', it is thought to be a corruption of the [Miami-Illinois](/source/Miami-Illinois_language) *maankwahkionka*, meaning 'in the Loon Land'.[5][6]

The [John O'Ferrell Store](/source/John_O'Ferrell_Store) was listed in the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1975.[7]

## Geography

Mongo is the site of "The Olde Store" (aka "John O'Ferrell Store" or the "Mongo Trading Post"), on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places).

## Demographics

The [United States Census Bureau](/source/United_States_Census_Bureau) defined Mongo as a [census designated place](/source/Census_designated_place) in the 2022 [American Community Survey](/source/American_Community_Survey).[8]

## References

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

1. ["ZIP Code 46771, Mongo IN, U.S. ZIP Codes, Database - Mongo Indiana Map"](http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/46771/zip-code-46771.asp)

1. [*Counties of LaGrange and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical*](https://books.google.com/books?id=AVM0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA203). F.A. Battey & Company. 1882. p. 203.

1. McCafferty, Michael. *Native American Place Names of Indiana*. [Champaign](/source/Champaign,_Illinois): U of Illinois P, 16. ISBN 978-0-252-03268-4.

1. ["Indiana's quirky place names and how they came to be"](https://eu.indystar.com/story/news/local/2019/07/15/indiana-quirky-place-names-and-how-they-came-to-be/1423214001/)

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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