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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 23:24, 26 November 2007: 512 × 512 (52 KB): File Upload Bot (Omnedon) == Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|This is a map of Miami County, Indiana, USA which highlights the location of Peru Township.}} |Source=My own work, using freely-available TIGER data and custom-written MapScript applications |Date=2007-11-26
Peru is a city in, and the county seat of, Miami County, Indiana, United States. [2] It is 73 miles (117 km) north of Indianapolis. The population was 11,073 at the 2020 census, [3] making it the most populous community in Miami County. [5] Peru is located along the Wabash River and is part of the Kokomo-Peru Combined Statistical Area.
Sagamore News Media – Noblesville; Plain Dealer & Sun – North Vernon; Paoli News-Republican – Paoli; Indiana Plain Dealer – Peru; The Flyer Group Newspapers – Plainfield; Shelbyville News – Plainfield; The Pilot News – Plymouth; Commercial Review – Portland; Princeton Daily Clarion – Princeton; Palladium-Item – Richmond; The ...
Miami County, Indiana: A Pictorial History. Peru: Miami County Historical Society (1995). ISBN 0-89865-951-5; Kingman Brothers. Combination atlas map of Miami County, Indiana. Charleston: Nabu Press (2011). ISBN 1-175-64684-9
Peru Township is one of fourteen townships in Miami County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census , its population was 10,638 and it contained 5,195 housing units. [ 2 ]
The white settlers found prosperity similar to that experienced by the Native Americans in this region of the Mississinewa River. A ford and trading post made Peoria a convenient stop for people between the nearby communities of Peru, Wabash and Marion. It is located near the Miami Indian historic trading grounds known as "Seven Pillars."
The Peru Tribune was first published on April 16, 1921. Nixon Newspapers sold it to Paxton Media Group in 1998 along with its sister paper, the Wabash Plain Dealer, founded in 1858 . [ 2 ] In April 2024, Paxton merged the Peru Tribune , Wabash Plain Dealer and Huntington Herald-Press together to form a new weekly publication called the Indiana ...
Bloomington, the home of Indiana University's main campus, and Columbus, a small industrial city, are located in the northern part of this region called south-central Indiana. Vincennes, founded by French traders in 1732 and the oldest settlement in the state, is located on the Wabash River and served as the first capital of the Indiana Territory.