Rapture, Indiana

Rapture
Unincorporated community
Rapture

Location within the state of Indiana

Coordinates: 38°9′8″N 87°50′31″W / 38.15222°N 87.84194°W / 38.15222; -87.84194Coordinates: 38°9′8″N 87°50′31″W / 38.15222°N 87.84194°W / 38.15222; -87.84194
Country United States
State Indiana
County Posey
Township Center
Elevation 436 ft (133 m)
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code(s) 812, 930
GNIS feature ID 441777[1]

Rapture is an unincorporated community in Posey County, Indiana, United States.[1] Rapture is located on Indiana State Road 68, between Poseyville and New Harmony.

The community was originally called "White's Settlement", and is one of the oldest communities in Posey County.[2] It was laid out in 1838 by John Cox, and became known as "Winfield", and also "Bugtown".[3] The present name of Rapture may have come from a local horse.[4] Cox Creek runs through the community.[5]

CNN reported in 2011 that just one person lives in Rapture, where they own a home, rental property and airplane hangar.[6] The airplane landing strip is known as "Bugtown Airport".[7]

Rapture was the setting for Terence Faherty's 1999 novel The Ordained.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rapture". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ Indiana Folklore, Volumes 2-3. Indiana University Research Center for the Language Sciences. 1969. p. 78.
  3. ↑ Leonard, William P. (1882). History and Directory of Posey County. Posey County Historical Society. p. 89.
  4. ↑ Baker, Ronald L. (October 1995). From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History. Indiana University Press. p. 276. ISBN 978-0-253-32866-3. ...for Dr. James Cooper's horse, Rapture.
  5. ↑ "Cox Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  6. ↑ Gast, Phil (May 20, 2011). "Rapture, Indiana, Not Sweating Predicted Day of Judgment". CNN.
  7. ↑ "Bugtown Airport". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  8. ↑ Grosset, Philip. "Owen Keane". detecs.org. Retrieved July 2014. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)


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