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TO NOVEMBER 2026 · THE POSTAL TOWN VS THE TOWN
The ZIP code is the biggest New Carlisle there is. ZIP 46552 answers for the incorporated town and for a wide Olive Township and cross-county country besides: the business association's own roll carries New Carlisle addresses out Chicago Trail and US 20, at Hudson Lake, and at Rolling Prairie in La Porte County — the postal town overrunning the town limits in every direction, the same postal ≫ town shape this build prints for its sister towns. The office's own course inside that period prints thin and honestly: the 1916–17 directory header, read whole, names no postmaster for New Carlisle (the canvass names them for other towns; for this one it does not), and neither the office's succession of Michigan Street seats nor the current postmaster's name stands in any source. Both are banked as named gaps — the postmaster succession (GAP-NC3-PO-2), settler the USPS Postmaster Finder's New Carlisle record, a form-driven application that is browser-lane work from a text seat and is named rather than claimed; the office's seat history (GAP-NC3-PO-3), settlers the Sanborn run held by the Indiana State Library (five editions, 1886–1929, per this build's sources file, against the Library of Congress's none) and the Gazette's columns. What is not a gap is the office's continuity: from Service's 1843 appointment to the 46552 operation of today, no discontinuance of the New Carlisle office stands in any record, and the office prints as continuous at that strength.
Sources:
- Polk (1916–17), New Carlisle entry, read whole: no postmaster named in the header.
- New Carlisle Business and Community Association directory, read whole November 2026: the 46552 address spread (Chicago Trail, US 20, Hudson Lake, Rolling Prairie).
- This build's sources file (NC-2): the Indiana State Library's five-edition Sanborn holding for New Carlisle, 1886–1929.