New Carlisle, Indiana, United States

🇺🇸 New Carlisle is a suburban village in Olive Township, St. Joseph County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is part of the South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI, Metropolitan Statistical Area.

History New Carlisle was originally known as Bourissa Hills. This was named after Lazarus Bourissa, a Potawatamie graduate of the Carey Mission who had been granted this section of land by the treaty that moved most of the Potawatamie to the west. It was platted under the name of New Carlisle, by Richard Risley Carlisle, who had come from Philadelphia, in 1835. The New Carlisle post office has been in operation since 1837.

The New Carlisle Historic District and Jeremiah Service House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park located in New Carlisle, was the subject of a popular 2020 documentary film called "Prime Farmland". IMDB.

Geography According to the 2010 census, New Carlisle has a total area of 2.08 square miles (5.39 km²), all land.

Transportation The South Shore Line had a New Carlisle stop until 1994, when a number of stations with low ridership were eliminated from its schedule. Today, the closest South Shore Line station is located in the next door Hudson Lake, an unincorporated town in LaPorte County. The closest Amtrak station is located in South Bend, Indiana. While the South Bend public transit system served the town in the past, this has not been the case in decades.

There has been exploration taken into possibly building a new South Shore Line station in New Carlisle.