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1916–2026 · GAS AND TELEPHONE
Gas is the cleanest verdict in this section; the telephone is the thinnest. Natural gas: NIPSCO's IURC Gas Service Tariff, in its Index of Cities, Towns and Unincorporated Communities Furnished Gas Service, lists "New Carlisle — St. Joseph — Zone A" — the town is a named NIPSCO gas community, printed at tariff strength, first-hand. The service's current growth is industrial: in April 2025 the County Commissioners approved a NIPSCO easement for gas transmission facilities and a substation on county land on Larrison Boulevard to serve the new development. Gas's arrival date in town is not carried by the record reached (a named gap, GAP-NC3-UTIL-3; settler the town's franchise ordinances). Telephone and internet print at their true, small size: the 1916 directory header carries "Tel., W. U." — telephone and Western Union telegraph at the railroad — and the express lines "Am. and Wells Fargo & Co." beside it; the exchange's own course, its operator successions, and today's broadband providers are not carried in any source and are banked as a named gap (GAP-NC3-UTIL-4), settlers the telephone directories of the Bell and independent era and the FCC's National Broadband Map for the modern state.
Sources:
- NIPSCO, IURC Gas Service Tariff (entire book, 2022 current): the index entry "New Carlisle, St. Joseph, A." Read first-hand.
- St. Joseph County Commissioners, 1 Apr 2025 (via Citizen Portal summary): the NIPSCO gas easement, Larrison Boulevard.
- Polk (1916–17), New Carlisle entry header: "Tel., W. U. Exp., Am. and Wells Fargo & Co."