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Merrillville

town in Ross Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States
Place town_in_the_united_states Q549140

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
town in the United States
Inception
1971[9]
Official website
www.merrillville.in.gov[10]
Official name
Merrillville[13]

Location

Country
United States[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.486°, -87.335°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Lake County, Ross Township[2][3]

Population and size

Area
+86.109505, +86.119124[16][17]
Elevation above sea level
+200[15]
Population
+35246, +36444[11][12]

Codes

Local dialing code
219[8]
Postal code
46410, 46411[6][7]
More facts +4
Number of households
+14533[14]
Per capita income
+31412[19]
Top-level Internet domain
.merrillville.in.us[5]
Water as percent of area
+0.1056[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en Merrillville en Merrillville, IN en Merrillville, Indiana ar ميريلفيل es Merrillville, Indiana fa مریلوایل ja メリルビル ko 메릴빌 ru Меррилвилл uk Меррілвіль zh 梅里尔维尔 zh-hant 美里爾維爾
🔖 Identifiers · 24
ISNI
0000000406446441
VIAF cluster ID
159174446
Library of Congress authority ID
n83227813
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Merrillville Skyline with US 30.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
32874
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Indiana/Localities/M/Merrillville/
Domain name
merrillville.in.us
Encyclopedia of Chicago ID
815
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
18-48528
Freebase ID
/m/0sn6w
GNIS Feature ID
439028, 2396754
GeoNames ID
4923482
Show all 24 identifiers +12
MusicBrainz area ID
43857768-0aca-44aa-b4a3-4b1ec280286e
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007552965905171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
127200
OpenWeatherMap city ID
4923482
Quora topic ID
Merrillville-IN
Ringgold ID
106796
Topic's main category
Category:Merrillville, Indiana
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10041095
UN/LOCODE
USMEL
WOEID
2449700
Who's on First ID
85891165
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJqk3CFT8rkvCBxr9V86Kd

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🔗 Connections
People born here 6
David Neville, Karen McDougal, Andrew J. West, Lynna Irby, Jeff Samardzija, Mike Neal
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Merrillville, Indiana, Category:Births in Merrillville, Indiana
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Merrillville, Indiana
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Merrillville, Indiana
Contained subdivisions 1
Gary Post Tribune
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Lake County
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
People who died here 1
Donald Kinsey
Topic's main category 1
Category:Merrillville, Indiana
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Merrillville, Indiana
← Headquarters location 1
NiSource
← Place of publication 1
Gary Post Tribune
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Summary

Merrillville is a town in the United States[1].

🛰️ Living Edge · news-derived, source-cited

high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.

served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold

Located in the administrative territorial entity Indiana emerging0.662 independent sources

evidence “Charles and his family traveled from Merrillville, Indiana, for the Flutter into Fall event.” wbez.org · read source

Related Entities

United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14w ago · Mxn · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Official website → http://www.merrillville.in.gov
    Category for people who died here → Wikidata item
    Instance of → —
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Top-level Internet domain: .merrillville.in.us"
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