Kingsbury Map
Kingsbury is a town in Washington Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, just northwest of the intersection of U.S. Route 35 and U.S. Route 6. The town was founded in 1835 and in the 1940s the Kingsbury Munitions plant was built for use during World War II where in one time it was targeted as one of the top 10 places the German Nazis wanted to attack mainly because all of the bombs being built there at the time, the plant closed after the Korean War. The population was 242 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Michigan City, Indiana-La Porte, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Kingsbury at one point was a successful economic town, today the town is small and quiet consisting of a post office, a liquor store, a small furniture store, an Elevator, and Dillards Whole Sale Carpet. The town has its own fire department, KVFD (Kingsbury Volunteer Fire Department), and its own church and cemetery, built in the 1830s. Kingsbury today is most well known for its extreme movies made there popular on youtube.com and for little league baseball at the Kingsbury Park, built on the site of the former Kingsbury High School. Author Austin Candler is from the town of Kingsbury. Famous for writing the book "Child Slave", in which he tells of the hardships he went through in the small town and of his mother who used him as a slave until he managed to escape. Also notable from Kingsbury is Mixed Martial Arts fighter Dustin Pape who lived and grew up in the small town during his teenage years.
Kingsbury is located at 41°31?36?N 86°42?2?W / 41.52667°N 86.70056°W / 41.52667; -86.70056.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.5 km²), all of it is land, besides the Kingsbury Creek that runs through it.
Nearby cities include Westville, Rolling Prairie, Hamlet, Walkerton, Wanatah.