Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Sheridan, IN

Sheridan is a town in Adams Township, Hamilton County, north of Indianapolis, whose official motto is 'The Countryside of Hamilton County.'

The center of population of Indiana — the balance point where the state would level out if every resident weighed the same — is located just northwest of Sheridan.

Sheridan began as Millwood: Egbert Higbee filed its town plat in April 1866, but when the village received a post office on January 30, 1871, it was renamed Sheridan, for Civil War general Philip Sheridan, because another Indiana Millwood already had a post office.

Sheridan grew up on land once owned by George Boxley, a Virginia merchant and abolitionist who fled bounty hunters after being suspected of fomenting a slave rebellion in 1815; the George Boxley Cabin at Pioneer Hill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The arrival of the Monon Railroad in 1882 set off a commercial and industrial boom in Sheridan, and the town was officially incorporated in 1886.

Natural gas was discovered on West 3rd Street in 1888, and during Indiana's gas boom Sheridan attracted a glass factory, a cannery, a large brickworks, and a condensed-milk plant.

By around 1900 Sheridan had become the second-largest town in Hamilton County, with a thriving Main Street of stores, hotels, banks, and lodges.

A great fire in 1913 started at a lumber company, destroyed much of downtown's south end along with the town hall, and burned all of Sheridan's early records — which is why the town's exact origins remain hazy.

Sheridan's Carnegie library, built with funds the town requested from Andrew Carnegie, was completed in 1912.

Sheridan had 3,106 residents at the 2020 census, living in 1,205 households.