Teegarden, IN

Teegarden is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Polk Township, Marshall County, Indiana, United States. Teegarden was platted in 1873. Teegarden has the last name of a family of settlers. A newcomer can read Teegarden through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Teegarden comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The community drains northwest toward Yellow Bank Creek, flowing west toward the Kankakee River, part of the Illinois River watershed.