Indiana State Road 232
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State Road 232 in the U.S. state
U.S. state
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 of Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

 is a short route that connects at the west end with its parent, State Road 32
Indiana State Road 32
State Road 32 in the U.S. State of Indiana is an east–west highway in central Indiana that crosses the entire state, covering a distance of about .-Route description:...

, east of Anderson
Anderson, Indiana
Anderson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal city of the Anderson, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses Madison county. Anderson is the headquarters of the Church of God and home of Anderson University, which is...

. It offers access to Mounds State Park
Mounds State Park
Mounds State Park is a state park in Anderson, Indiana, featuring Native American heritage, and 10 ceremonial mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture indigenous peoples of eastern North America, and also used centuries by later Hopewell culture inhabitants.-Mounds:The largest earthwork, the...

.

Route description

The western terminus of SR 232 is at an intersection of SR 32 and State Road 9
Indiana State Road 9
State Road 9 in the U.S. State of Indiana is a long north–south state highway in the eastern portion of Indiana. Its southern terminus is near Columbus at State Road 46, and the northern terminus is at the Michigan/Indiana border between Howe, Indiana, and Sturgis, Michigan, where it...

 in Anderson. SR 232 heads southeast from the intersection. Near the intersection of Rangeline Road, SR 232 turns to the northeast. At the intersection of Donnelly Road, SR 232 turns left heading to Mounds State Park. SR 232 heads northeast until the entrance of Mounds State Park, the entrance is the eastern terminus of SR 232.

History

It is a former routing of State Road 32, before it was routed northward on State Road 9
Indiana State Road 9
State Road 9 in the U.S. State of Indiana is a long north–south state highway in the eastern portion of Indiana. Its southern terminus is near Columbus at State Road 46, and the northern terminus is at the Michigan/Indiana border between Howe, Indiana, and Sturgis, Michigan, where it...

 and then out to the east of the city. SR 32 did not go past the entrance to Mounds State Park, instead at the Donnelly Road intersection SR 32 headed straight for State Road 67
Indiana State Road 67
State Road 67 in the U.S. State of Indiana cuts a diagonal route from southwest to northeast across the state from the north side of Vincennes to Indianapolis to the Ohio state line, where it becomes State Route 29 east of Bryant.-Route description:...

. The route of SR 232 that heads toward the entrance of Mounds State Park, from Donnellly Road to the north, was always SR 232.

Major intersections

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