Community Profile

SCHOOLS

North Daviess Elementary and High School serve the northern part of Daviess County which includes Odon, Raglesville, Elnora and Plainville. Check out the North Daviess Snap Shot on the Indiana Department of Education site.

PARK

Lincoln Statue was carved and presented by Ira A. Correll on August 17, 1922 In Memory of The Pioneer Fathers and Mothers. The Lincoln Statue is on display at the Park.

We are proud of our park, which is extensive, especially for a town our size. The park has many things to offer including several baseball/softball fields. Walkers, bicyclers, tennis players, volleyball players, and joggers are all welcome in our wooded park. About once a month in the summer, free concerts are held at the park bandstand. Campers and picnic celebrators are welcome to e-mail the Town Hall for reservations. Rates for rentals are as follows: $15.00 per night for RV overnight sites (electricity, water, dumping station); Floral Hall rental $35.00, Community Building $50.00 and open shelters for $10.00. Tennis players are also welcome even after the gates are closed to vehicles and campers for the year. For bookings, e-mail the Town Hall or by phone at 812.636.4321.

World War Memorial tribute to our World War Soldiers and Nurses of Odon. The Memorial is on display at the Park.

WINKLEPLECK LIBRARY

Our town benefits from a library that serves both Odon and the surrounding rural area. A wide variety of periodicals, cassettes, and videos are available in addition to books. Copying and lamination services are available for a small fee. Computer work stations with Internet access, word processing, spreadsheet, and graphics applications are available to patrons. Assistance is available from the librarians. For further information regarding library hours and services check out their website or e-mail.

OUR AMISH NEIGHBORS

The Town of Odon is in the center of one of the largest settlements of the Amish and conservative Mennonite people in the Midwest. You are welcome along the miles of picturesque farm road to observe the well-kept gardens, horse drawn buggies, and horse teams at work in the fields. You are sure to receive a friendly wave and reception at the scattered small home businesses that surround Odon. Amish run restaurants and business such as our local lumber yard create an easy sharing among neighbors.

If auctions are what you like then be sure to come and visit the Dinky's Auction Center. Located half way between Odon Highway 58 and Cannelburg Highway 50 on County Road 900 East in the heart of Southern Indiana's Amish country.

Interested in Amish tours? Check out the new Green Gables Bed & Breakfast. They offer spacious living space as well as outdoor entrances to each room for the ultimate in seclusion and privacy. They offer a free hearty country breakfast to start your day and when, where, and the types of food you're served is entirely up to you! And when you feel like staying in to relax and curl up with a good book, they have a library on the main floor connected to a spacious and breezy deck that surrounds the entire home.

They also offer Amish Farm Tours where you can tour an actual Amish farm, see all the farm animals and see a very different way of life. You can also tour the world's largest commercial Amish bakery Graber's Kountry Korner. Located next door to the Bed & Breakfast, they can arrange a tour of any part of the facility, and you will be able to see cinnamon rolls made from scratch, homemade bread, and watch noodles being manufactured like you've never seen before. Ever wonder what it would be like to eat in an Amish home? They can even arrange an Amish Supper just for you. You may want to engage in relaxing conversation, a brief walk around the farm, or simply wait to be served the most delicious meal you have ever enjoyed.

TOWN ORGANIZATION

2008 TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS

Keith Bechtel

Cheryl Miller

Tom Noble III - President

Opal McDannald, Clerk-Treasurer

Odon, at a population of 1376 (2000 Census) is governed by a three-person board that performs the functions of both mayor and town council. Each Council member is elected to a four-year term representing his ward and then the Council members choose one of the members to serve as annual president. Legislative business is conducted at the public monthly meeting, but emergency sessions may be called for urgent matters. Administrative business is conducted daily from 7:30am to 4:30pm at the town hall by the full time elected Town Clerk-Treasurer, who consults the Council as necessary between meetings for administrative matters. The town employs a Clerk's assistant plus other full time personnel for management and maintenance of town streets, water systems, sewage collection/treatment and two full time Police Officers.

The Council's regular meeting is held every 2^nd Monday at 6:30pm (unless changed as advertised in the Odon Journal or posted at the Town Hall), located on the corner of South Spring and East Walnut Streets.

Odon employs two full time Police Officers for residents' security and traffic control. Odon has dispatch capability and also participates in area 911 service for ready backup by county and state law enforcement personnel. Concerns, suggestions, questions, or requests for assistance may be submitted via e-mail to the Town Marshall, where your input will be treated confidentially.

The Odon fire department is a volunteer force. They are equipped, trained, and fully certified with completely modern equipment. The Odon department works in cooperation with the Madison Township fire department for mutual support and backup in the town and surrounding countryside.

Odon has a safe, reliable, independent, water supply now and in the future for industrial, commercial, and residential customers in or near town. Significant surplus water is available for industry locating in the area.

Odon provides sewage treatment for residents and industry by a modern, fully certified water pollution control plant.

CINERGY PSI provides electric power. Natural gas is available throughout the town limits, and is provided by Midwest Natural Gas Corporation. Natural gas rates are available upon request for all applications and markets. Contact Midwest Natural Gas Corporation at 800.491.4150.

Evansville Regional Airport, Indianapolis International Airport, and the Louisville International Airport offer easily accessible, excellent connections to North America and overseas. Evansville Airport is about 1-1/2 hour south of Odon. The Indianapolis Airport is 1-3/4 hour northeast of Odon. The Louisville International Airport is 2 hours south of Odon. The Daviess County Airport, which is located 30 minutes southwest of Odon in Washington, provides cargo and charter services to various points regionally and nationally.

Freight services run daily through Odon and are readily accessible to industrial areas. Trucking and transport companies for both short and long haul are available in the area.

ORDINANCES

Town Pride: We have an ordinance which encourages and enforces keeping your property up to basic community standards in the areas of trash cleanup, clearing of junk cars, and other debris. Another ordinance requires that each resident maintain any existing sidewalk on their property boundaries so that others can safely pass. While the town employees are charged with noting and enforcing violators, only all of us working together can keep our town in a shape that all can be proud of! Please work together to both keep your own property well and to encourage your neighbors to do the same. Violators of any ordinance will be fined!

AREA BUSINESS'S

Whether you are just passing through, attending an area festival, visiting friends, or settling in with us, Odon offers an appealing variety of services. Those services include the following: ambulance services, Amish bakery, Amish furniture store, appliance and repair stores, auction and furniture facility, auto parts stores, auto repair service, banks with drive-up service and ATM machines, cabinet makers, car washes, certified public accountant, chiropractor clinic, churches of all denominations, computer repair service, construction providers, craft stores, daycare center, dining establishments, Dollar General store, eye doctor, feed and grain service, fertilizer and seed company, fire department, flower shops, funeral home, gas stations and convenience store, grocery store, gymnastics academy, hair care facilities, hardware store, head start program, insurance agents representing most major companies, landscaping contractor, lawn mower and lawn care sales and services, library, manufacturing companies, meat processing plant, medical clinics, newspaper office, package store, pharmacy, post office, printing services, saw mill, sewing store, sand and stone excavating service, sports cards collectibles store, termite and pest control services, U-Haul rental service, vault company, veterinary clinics, video rental service, and a youth barn for teenagers. As you can tell we have the services you need at a price and quality you thought were forgotten.

Odon is a friend to industry, with some of Daviess County's larger employers choosing to locate in or around Odon. We are the chosen area for a number of light industrial manufacturing plants and shops producing a wide variety including gloves, plastics, wood products, metal products, and light trailers. Our workforce is second to none, with a concentration of the working age population significantly higher than the state average. In addition, Odon is only a 12-mile commute from the Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center and is home to many that work in the defense industry.

MAJOR HIGHWAYS

Highway 231, a major state thoroughfare, passes four miles east of town for north/south access. Highway 57 is available 7 miles west of town for alternate north/south access from the Evansville or Vincennes areas. Highway 58 passes through town for east/west access. The proposed Interstate 69, to be constructed, will be situated approximately five miles from town for easy access to national interstates.