Fontanet, IN

Fontanet is an unincorporated census-designated place in central Nevins Township, Vigo County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The 2020 census counted 347 residents. Fontanet lies along Baldwin St., northeast of Terre Haute, the county seat of Vigo County. Fontanet is part of the Terre Haute Metropolitan Statistical Area. All areas in Vigo County are in the Vigo County School Corporation. Fontanet is zoned to Rio Grande Elementary School, Otter Creek Middle School, and Terre Haute North Vigo High School. A newcomer can read Fontanet through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Fontanet comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. Fontanet, two miles west of Coal Bluff, was also an important mining town worked and operated by the Coal Bluff Mining Company. The town also was an important railroad station on the Indianapolis and St. Louis Railroad.