Alamo, IN

Alamo is a town in Ripley Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The 2020 census counted 66 residents. Alamo was laid out and platted in 1837. Alamo became a small trading center for nearby farms. South Montgomery Community School Corporation operates public schools serving Alamo. Southmont Junior High School and Southmont High School serve secondary students. The through line in Alamo is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Alamo makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Alamo is located in western Montgomery County 13 miles southwest of Crawfordsville, the county seat. Alamo sits on high ground which drains east to tributaries of Sugar Creek and west to tributaries of Stillwater Creek, which joins Sugar Mill Creek at Wallace and is part of the Sugar Creek watershed, flowing west to the Wabash River north of Montezuma.