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Frame as of November 2026
The town in its frame. New Carlisle is a town under Indiana law in Olive Township, St. Joseph County. Its federal identifiers are GNIS feature ID 2396800 and FIPS place code 18-52704; its ZIP code is 46552 — a postal area far larger than the town, which prints here at its own bounds only. The town's survey frame is Township 38 North, Range 1 West, Second Principal Meridian; the original plat lies in the northeast quarter of section 34 of that township, and the federal place point falls in section 35. The town's published position is carried two ways in the record — 41.70056° N, 86.49639° W in the gazetteer reading, and 41.704134, −86.504636 on the 2010 census gazetteer basis — and its land area two ways by vintage: 2.23 square miles in the 2020 Gazetteer files and 2.08 square miles in the 2010 files. Both readings print; neither is silently preferred. Chapman, in 1880, fixed the town's look in one sentence: "New Carlisle is beautifully situated on a hill at the southeastern extremity of this prairie" — Terre Coupee prairie, four miles and more across, "almost as level as a barn floor." The town's own site today describes "approximately 1,860 residents" — a figure of 2010 vintage against the 2020 census count of 1,891 — and a service area "at least three times that many." Town Hall stands at 124 East Michigan Street.