Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Swayzee, IN

Swayzee is a town in Sims Township, Grant County, Indiana, and its welcome sign proudly claims that it is "the only Swayzee in the world."

The town's claim is based on a story from World War II, when a postcard sent by a serviceman overseas, addressed only to "Swayzee" with no state or other information, was still said to have been successfully delivered.

Swayzee takes its name from James Swayzee, who was the original owner of the town site.

Swayzee holds the Indiana state record for the most overtimes in a basketball game — on March 15, 1964, the Swayzee team beat Liberty Center 65-61 in nine overtimes at the Marion Regional, and the feat is noted on the town's welcome sign.

Just outside town, the Pipe Creek Sinkhole, uncovered in 1996 at the Pipe Creek Junior limestone quarry, has produced important paleontological discoveries dating from the Pliocene epoch.

The 2020 census counted 918 people in Swayzee, and back in 2010 the town had 981 people living in 393 households.

Swayzee was a considerably bigger town a century ago — its population peaked at 1,162 residents in the 1900 census before declining through the farm-era decades.

Swayzee sits about eight miles west of Marion, the Grant County seat, and State Road 13 runs north and south through town along Washington Street.

Young children in Swayzee attend Swayzee Elementary School, which is run by the Oak Hill United School Corporation, and the town also has its own lending library, the Swayzee Public Library.