Beech Grove, Indiana "Beech Grove"
Beech Grove .
City of Beech Grove, Indiana Beech Grove is an excluded town/city in Marion County, Indiana, United States.
Beech Grove is positioned at 39 43 4 N 86 5 29 W (39.717677, -86.091308). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.39 square miles (11.37 km2), all land. The city's elevation, calculated in feet above sea level, ranges from 766 (the Beech Creek waterway, where it is crossed by South 9th Avenue) to 845 (the northeastern portion of the Amtrak barns property).
Beech Creek, Mc - Farland Creek, Pullman Creek, and Victory Run all feed into Lick Creek, which (after leaving the town/city limits) feeds into the West Fork of the White River.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Beech Grove has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. By the turn of the 20th century, the Beech Grove region was a non-urban section of Indiana's Marion County.
Bolton's farm, "Beech Bank" and Churchman's cattle farm, "Beech Grove Farm", both reflected the abundance of beech trees in this area.
Bolton Park, situated on some of the former Beech Bank farmland, still contains a several large beech trees along its southern boundary.
The actual town/city came into existence as a business town for a new barns repair facility, the Beech Grove Shops, constructed by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St.
In 2007, Amtrak had 550 employees working there. In recognition of the city's tradition as a barns town, Amtrak's company car 10001 is titled The Beech Grove and is often used by agency officials when they travel the system.
Although Beech Grove was incorporated in late 1906, it did not see rapid expansion until the culmination of the barns facility in 1908; by July 1907, for example, there were only four homes and two businesses in place.
Beech Grove interval with two annexations after World War II, with the final one (1967) taking place just before the Unigov legislation which consolidated Indianapolis with most of the rest of Marion County, preventing future annexation.
Two famous actors have listed Beech Grove as their place of birth Clifton Webb (November 19, 1889 1966) and Steve Mc - Queen (March 24, 1930 1980).
Webb was born before Beech Grove came into existence as a separate entity, while Mc - Queen was born at the City's St.
Both moved away from the region while they were still infants; neither one interval up or lived in Beech Grove.
On October 15, 1948, Beech Grove received the honor of a visit by a sitting President of the United States.
Within the traditional focus in Indiana on high-school basketball, the Beech Grove Hornets have earned one IHSAA State Championship that of its girls team, in Class 3 - A of the 2003 tournament.
Beech Grove High School's "Marching Hornets" band program has earned four Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) State Band Finals berths in its history, amid the long service of former director James Williams.
Some Beech Grove streets have been titled in honor of notable people, such as Byland Drive (Mayor Richard Byland); Fletcher Lane (former Fire Chief, City Councilman and company owner Robert Fletcher); Killian Drive (Father Peter Killian); Newcomer Lane (Town Board member and businessman W.
Routes 12-Minnesota and 13-Raymond serve 17th Avenue (Sherman Drive) from Southern Avenue to Main Street, with select trips serving Albany Street from 17th Avenue to 25th Avenue.
Route 14-Prospect serves Emerson Avenue from the Amtrak barns crossing all the way to Thompson Road, the southern end of Beech Grove.
Route 16-Beech Grove serves Albany Street from 25th Avenue to 17th Avenue, 17th from Albany to Main, Main from 17th to Emerson Avenue, and Emerson to Thompson Road.
Beech Grove maintains an address-numbering fitness distinct from encircling Indianapolis.
The initial roadway connecting Beech Grove to Indianapolis was Churchman Avenue, running northwest from Beech Grove.
The initial city was assembled to the north of Churchman Avenue, on a north/south grid pattern with alleys, centered on the widened roads of Main Street and Fifth Avenue.
The expansion of Indianapolis toward Beech Grove led to certain streets changing names at the Beech Grove town/city limits.
Indianapolis' Troy Avenue becomes Beech Grove's Albany Street; Indianapolis' Sherman Drive becomes Beech Grove's 17th Avenue; and Indianapolis' Emerson Avenue becomes (in places) Beech Grove's 1st Avenue.
Beech Grove from the air (southeastern part of the City; Amtrak repair yards visible at left center).I-465 is clearly visible in this photo, and its interchange with I-74 is visible in the northeastern corner Although geographically completely surrounded by Indianapolis, Beech Grove is an excluded town/city so it maintains its own police, fire, enhance works, and parks departments and operates its own senior-citizens' center.
Beech Grove's government was first organized as a "Town Board" fitness on November 12, 1906.
Upon legally becoming an Indiana Fifth-Class City in 1935, its first mayor and four town/city council members were propel (three precinct members, and one at-large).
Beech Grove accomplished Indiana Fourth-Class City status in 1961.
Mayor Joe Wright announced his resignation from the office as of January 14, 2011; CIty Councilman John Jennings was titled as Interim Mayor, until the appointment of Terry Dilk on January 25, 2011 by the Marion County Republican Committee to fill out Wright's term through the 2011 elections.
The town/city has its own school district, the Beech Grove City Schools, but Franklin Township Community School Corporation also serves some of this region.
Beech Grove City Schools consists of five facilities (Hornet Park, Central Elementary, South Grove Intermediate, Beech Grove Middle, and Beech Grove High).
Its high school athletic teams, the "Hornets" (colors: orange and black) participate as members of the statewide Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA), the Marion County Athletic Association and the Indiana Crossroads Conference.
By 1960, the city's expansion to the south prompted the building of South Grove Elementary (later Intermediate) at the 800 block of South 9th Avenue.
With the populace growth, the present high school was assembled in 1966 just east of the 4000 block of South Emerson Avenue and the 1955 facility remained as the junior high (later middle) school.
As part of the state's trend to incorporate this age level inside the enhance schools, the town/city school fitness joined with the City's Parks Department in the evolution of Hornet Park, a dual-use facility assembled on the grounds of the former Olympia Club (a private swimming/recreation club).
At different times in the town/city schools' history, certain grade-levels have been moved between schools.
Many students from Holy Name of Jesus continue their high school studies at Beech Grove High School or the close-by Roncalli High School.
Francis Hospital, was established in Beech Grove by the monastic order of the Sisters of St.
The Beech Grove hospital closed in 2012 after most medical services were transferred to a more modern, suburban hospital ground in south Indianapolis. Beech Grove's earliest churches have existed since the earliest days of the city.
A Methodist Episcopal meeting in the Clapp family home in 1908 eventually led to the present Beech Grove United Methodist Church.
A noon-time Christian men's meeting of "Big Four" barns employees in 1910 was the genesis of the present Beech Grove Christian Church.
Churches established in the town/city in later years include Beech Grove Wesleyan Church (formerly Pilgrim Holiness Church, in the 1920s); Faith Assembly of God (Assemblies of God, 1958); South Emerson Church of God (Reformation Movement, Church of God (Anderson), 1961); Southwood Baptist Church (Southern Baptist Convention, 1962); and Ascension Lutheran Church (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, 1972).
The small-town Beech Grove Promoters Club was established in 1953 as a chapter of the National Exchange Club, but left that organization in 1957 and adopted its present name.
Past civic organizations which, while no longer in existence, performed service to the town/city include the Beech Grove Civic League and the Beech Grove Jaycees.
The Jaycees organized a "Buck-A-Brick" campaign in the 1950s to build a home-sized Beech Grove Civic Center on South 3rd Avenue, offering meeting rooms to the people.
Beech Grove has no daily newspaper, but its news affairs were mainly veiled for many years by a no-charge weekly journal headquartered inside the city.
(Past Beech Grove newspapers encompassed the Independent, the Graphic and the Spotlight.) The town/city has no small-town radio or tv station.
Among the organizations sponsoring youth athletics are the Beech Grove Little League, the Beech Grove Athletic Boosters (football, volleyball, basketball), the Beech Grove Wrestling Club, the Beech Grove Girls' Softball Association, the Beech Grove Soccer Club and the Beech Grove Swimming Club.
The Scouting movement, both the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA, have had a long history inside Beech Grove.
Beech Grove, although not a non-urban community, also has an active chapter of the traditionally-rural 4-H Club.
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