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South Fortville housing: several eras on the same eight streets

Eight streets are on the record here, verified in the Indiana statewide parcel layer: Orchard Drive and West Orchard Drive, Spencer Boulevard, Crossley Street, Morrison Street, Blackburn Street, Jackson Street and North Vernon Lane. What is not on the record is when any of them were built. Hancock County's assessor mapping runs through Beacon and a GeoPower atlas that answer no parcel query, and the statewide layer carries no year built field, so no era is published for this section. The sourced style note is the useful one: mixed, ranch and small two story with some newer infill. Not one vintage. That is the working assumption and it holds up on site.

Fortville's town wide era split is the best available frame. The ACS records 288 units predating 1940, 649 from 1940 to 1979, 418 from 1980 to 1999, 475 from 2000 to 2019 and 105 from 2020 on, out of 1,935 total. The 1940 to 1979 block is the largest in the town and it is remarkably even: 107 units from the 1940s, 186 from the 1950s, 196 from the 1960s and 160 from the 1970s. That is what a small town growing slowly looks like, and the south side carries a share of it. Twelve to twenty openings is the working count on these plans, smaller than the 16 to 24 in the north east production block.

Why a south Fortville measure takes longer

The mid century part of this stock is where a 2-inch inside mount most often will not physically fit anywhere in Fortville. Shallow jambs are the reason, and storm window build ups make it worse by consuming depth the opening appears to have. A cellular headrail or a shutter L-frame needs flat depth at the head, and on a 1950s or 1960s house on Morrison Street you can measure 1 1/4 inches where the product wants 2. The answer is not to force it. It is an outside mount onto the applied casing those houses do have, using a Z-frame or a deco frame that covers the discrepancy and gives better light control than an inside mount would have.

Squareness is the second reason this section is slower. Fortville is the most settled housing stock in Hancock County outside Greenfield's historic districts, with a median build year of 1982 and 288 houses predating 1940, so a three point measure is the default here rather than a precaution. On these streets, reusing a measure between two openings in the same house is a mistake, because the house may have moved unevenly and because the openings may not have been identical when they were built. The newer infill houses are the exception and they measure clean. We do not know which is which until we are inside.

What we specify on the south side of Fortville

There is no south side package, and anyone offering one has not been in the houses. What we can commit to is the method: establish casing type and flat depth at the head first, then square, then product. Practically, the mid century houses on Morrison Street and Blackburn Street push toward outside mount solutions on their applied casing, while the newer infill on Orchard Drive takes a recessed inside mount without a fight. Fortville is in IECC Climate Zone 5A, where January averages a 20.9F low and July an 85.2F high, so both seasons are real and the older houses feel both of them more. Custom work runs $250 to $2,600 per window nationally against $60 to $600 for stock.

The south side of Fortville, toward SR 234 and McCordsville

These streets sit south of the town center toward West SR 234 and North Fortville Pike, on the Vernon Township section grid at W 900 N and W 925 N. It is the transition zone: the same section lines carry on into McCordsville, and the two towns' address ranges meet along them. North Vernon Lane is the giveaway that Fortville and McCordsville share Vernon Township in Hancock County's north west corner. Schools are the Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation, with Fortville Elementary School, Mt. Vernon Middle School and Mt. Vernon High School, reported by a local guide as 39th in Indiana. Downtown Fortville and Memorial Park are a short run north, along with FoxGardin Family Kitchen and Sunrise Donuts.

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