Austin straddles the Louisville & Indiana Railroad corridor in southern Indiana, and that north–south connection helped it grow as a small Scott County community. The Muscatatuck River runs south of town through rolling farmland and wooded drainage typical of this part of the state. Austin was platted in 1853 as rail travel linked the region with larger cities in Indiana and Kentucky. Its compact centre, local businesses and residential streets retain the scale of a nineteenth-century railroad town, while Hardy Lake State Recreation Area lies elsewhere in Scott County. Move on to other webcams in Indiana to compare landscapes and settings around Austin.
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