Mongo is an unincorporated village in Springfield Township

Springfield Township, LaGrange County, Indiana

Springfield Township is one of eleven townships in LaGrange County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, its population was 1,284.-External links:* *...

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LaGrange County, Indiana

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. The name Mongo derives from the early settlers' name for the area: Mongoquinong. Although An Illustrated Historical Atlas of LaGrange County, Indiana (1874) translates this as "Big Squaw Village", is presently thought to be a corruption of the Miami-Illimois maankwahkionka, meaning "In the Loon Land".

Geography

Mongo is located at 41°41′05"N 85°16′47"W. Mongo is the site of "The Olde Store" (aka "John O'Ferrell Store" or the "Mongo Trading Post"), on the National Register of Historic Places

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