Scott, Indiana

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement    |official_name = Scott, Indiana |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |motto =  |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |image_map = |mapsize = |map_caption = |image_map1 = |mapsize1 = |map_caption1 = |pushpin_map = Indiana#USA |pushpin_label = Scott |pushpin_label_position = bottom |pushpin_map_caption = |pushpin_mapsize =  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = United States |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = Indiana |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = LaGrange |subdivision_type3 = Township |subdivision_name3 = Van Buren  |established_title = |established_date =  |area_total_km2 = |area_land_km2 =  |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_note = |population_total =  |timezone = |utc_offset = |timezone_DST = |utc_offset_DST = |coordinates = {{coord|41|44|34|N|85|33|28|W|region:US-IN|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> |elevation_ft = 840 |founder = |named_for =  |postal_code_type = ZIP code |postal_code = 46565 |area_code = |blank_name = FIPS code |blank_info = 18-68418<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 = 2830438<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|2830438}}</ref> |website = |footnotes = }} '''Scott''' is a small unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.

==History== Scott, originally called Van Buren, was platted in 1833.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AVM0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA183 | title=Counties of LaGrange and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical | publisher=F.A. Battey & Company | year=1882 | pages=183}}</ref> A post office called Scott opened in 1837, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1905.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Lagrange&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=LaGrange County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=9 December 2014}}</ref>

==Geography== Scott is located on the Pigeon River near the Indiana Toll Road, just about a mile south of the state border with Michigan.

==Demographics== {{US Census population | align = left | estyear = 2023 | estimate = 98 | estref = <ref name=CensusEst2023>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2023.B03002?q=B03002&g=160XX00US1868418|title=B03002 Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino by Race – Scott CDP – 2023 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates|date=July 1, 2023|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=August 1, 2025}}</ref> | align-fn = center | footnote = }}

The United States Census Bureau defined Scott as a census designated place in the 2022 American Community Survey.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2022 Geography Changes|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/technical-documentation/table-and-geography-changes/2022/geography-changes.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=}}</ref> {{clear|left}}

==Notable people== * Edwin W. Keightley (1843–1926), U.S. representative from Michigan<ref>{{cite web |title=Edwin W. Keightley|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/K000049|website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|publisher=Office of the House Historian and Office of the Senate Historian|access-date=May 8, 2026}}</ref>

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Category:Unincorporated communities in LaGrange County, Indiana Category:Unincorporated communities in Indiana

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