Sweetser Map
Sweetser is a town in Franklin, Pleasant and Richland townships, Grant County, Indiana, United States. The population was 857 at the 2006 census.
Sweetser is located at 40°34?11?N 85°46?1?W / 40.56972°N 85.76694°W / 40.56972; -85.76694 (40.569731, -85.766972) on State Road 18 between the town of Converse and the city of Marion. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square miles (2.5 km²), of which, 1.0 square miles (2.5 km²) of it is land and 1.02% is water. Although most of the town is either houses or cornfields, there are many other features to this small, quiet town.
Running through the edge of Sweetser is a small body of water, or creek, known as Pipe Creek. Pipe Creek is one of the sites that can be seen from the Sweetser Switch Trail. Known as one of Sweetser’s main attractions, the trail is a walking trail that stretches throughout the whole town and is expanded three miles outside of the town’s outer limits. Although this trail is intended for walking, there are signs posted that allow bicyclists, cross country skiers, runners, wheel chairs and various other ways of exercise permitted on the trail. A new addition to the trail is a statue of one of Grant County’s celebrities, Garfield. Sweetser is home to the artist, Eric Reaves, who assists creator Jim Davis on the comic strip. The trail is lit at night for safety for its travelers by solar panels.
Nearby cities include Greentown, Fairmount, Van Buren, Wabash, Upland.