Editing Claypool, Indiana (section)

==History==
Claypool was [[plat]]ted in 1873.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=llA0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA723 |title=Biographical and Historical Record of Kosciusko County, Indiana |publisher=Lewis Publishing Company |year=1887 |pages=723}}</ref> The post office at Claypool has been in operation since 1841.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kosciusko County |url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Kosciusko |accessdate=June 4, 2017 |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History}}</ref>

Claypool was previously an important rail transportation hub because it was located at the junction of the [[Big Four Railroad|Big Four]] and the [[Nickel Plate]] railroad lines.

Claypool is the hometown of two of Indiana's basketball greats, [[Judi Warren]], who became the first [[Indiana Miss Basketball]] in 1976, and Kevin Ault, [[Indiana Mr. Basketball]] of 1996. Both played for [[Warsaw Community High School]]. Judi Warren was inducted into the [[Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame]]<ref>[http://www.hoopshall.com/inductees/women/2002/warren.html Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame – Judi Ann Warren<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060508083936/http://www.hoopshall.com/inductees/women/2002/warren.html|date=May 8, 2006}}</ref> in 2002.

The town was also notable for the controversial local house church established for a time in the 1970s by [[Hobart Freeman]].

Claypool was featured in an article in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine in its September 8, 1980, issue.<ref name="TimeArticle">{{cite magazine |author=Trippett, Frank |title=In Indiana: Here Comes the Bookmobile |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924387,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101125111329/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,924387,00.html |archive-date=November 25, 2010 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |accessdate=July 10, 2016}}</ref>

In 2006 Claypool was selected by [[Louis Dreyfus Agriculture Industries]], a French Corporation, as the location for a new biodiesel manufacturing plant. When completed, it will be the largest biodiesel manufacturing plant in the state.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biofuels Plant to Benefit Indiana Farmers and Livestock |url=http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44348 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070419021749/http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=44348 |archivedate=April 19, 2007 |accessdate=June 3, 2007}} Biofuels plant to benefit Indiana Farmers</ref> Crushing and flaking equipment from Damman-Croes Belgium has been selected.