Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Ulen, IN

Ulen is a tiny town in Center Township, Boone County, that is completely surrounded by the city of Lebanon, the county seat.

Ulen is named for Henry Ulen (1871-1963), an industrialist who quit school after the fifth grade and rode the rails as a young man before founding Ulen & Company, an international construction firm that built projects such as the Shandaken Tunnel in New York, a railroad across the Persian desert, and the Marathon Dam in Greece.

The Ulen Country Club was established in 1924, and its golf course was designed by William Diddel, who went on to design nearly 300 golf courses across the country.

Ulen was incorporated as a town on April 6, 1929, the same year Henry Ulen moved Ulen & Company's headquarters from New York City to Lebanon.

The town was created as a community of residences for Henry Ulen and his company's executives; he spent about $1 million putting in sewers, electric lights, a nursery for shrubbery, an eighteen-hole golf course, and a clubhouse.

Ulen had just 114 residents at the 2020 census; at the 2010 census it had 117 people living in 49 households.

Ulen's population has swung wildly for its size, peaking at 193 people in 1980 and plunging to just 50 residents in the 1990 census.

The Ulen Historic District, covering the country club, golf course, and the grand homes along Ulen Boulevard, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

At roughly 40 acres, Ulen is one of the smallest incorporated towns in Indiana, and its golf course and country club remain the hub of the community just as they were in the 1920s.