Schererville is a town in St. John Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 29,243 at the 2010 census.HistoryLong before Indiana became a state, long before the founding of Schererville, people called the area the "Crossroads," as several Native American trails intersected here, that later became routes for the wagons of settlers traveling west.One of those settlers was Nicholas Scherer, born in 1830 at Dilsburg, today part of Heusweiler district, Saarland, southwest Germany, who arrived in the U.S. in 1846. When he came to this place at the southern tip of Lake Michigan in 1865, he founded the community that bears his name.Today, trails still cross at Schererville, the modern trails of a motorized society, U.S. Highways 41 and 30. Nearby are newer trails, I-80/94 and I-65. All these are primary transcontinental routes and gives Schererville its slogan: "Crossroads of the Nation."The town was named one of the "100 Best Places to Live in the U.S." by Money Magazine in 2007.Schererville's former Town Council President, Perry Ferrini, died on December 13, 2009. The Town Council's new president became Jerry Tippy, and the vacant seat held by Perry was filled by Sharon Moore on January 9, 2010.The town of Schererville celebrated its sesquicentennial in September, 2016.GeographySchererville is located at .According to the 2010 census, Schererville has a total area of 14.763sqmi, of which 14.71sqmi is land and 0.053sqmi is water.
