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• The Blackford County Home Page
• USGS: Maps of Blackford County Indiana features - including cemeteries, churches, populated places and more.  Please note that the map town listed with a feature may be used as a map reference for the site, and may not be the town where the feature is actually located...Select a map to see the location of the actual feature.  This database may not be complete, and, as with any database, there may be errors.
• countyhistory.com: for Blackford County, by Ronald Branson!
• Indiana State Library.
  
   140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
• Indiana Cemetery Locator Database
• Indiana Biography Index
• Index of Indiana Marriages Through 1850.
• Images from the County
• County Newspaper Holdings (in Indianapolis)
• Indiana State Archives.
  
   6440 E. 30th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46219   Phone: (317) 591-5222
• Major Family History Resources
• ICPR Collections
• Naturalization Databases for the Indiana counties of Blackford, Dubois, Elkhart, Floyd, Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Howard, Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Owen, Parke, Putnam, Randolph, Switzerland, Union, Wayne, and Whitley.
• From Plymouth Rock to Blackford County, Indiana : the Stover descendants of Blackford County families, by Carmen Joenne Stover Rogers.
• Blackford County Historical Society
  • 321 North High Street - P.O. Box 264 - Hartford City, IN 47348.
• Blackford-Wells Genealogy Society
- P.O. Box 54 - Bluffton, IN  46714
• Indiana Civil War Veterans: Blackford County, by Orville Uggen, Blackford County Civil War Historian.
• The Blackford County Civil War Reenactment Club.
• Blackford County Genealogy, hosted by Judy.
• The Hartford City Public Library
  
• 314 N High Street - Hartford City, IN  47348  Phone:  (765) 348-1720.
• Montpelier Public Library
  • 301 South Main Street - Montpelier, IN 47359   Phone: (765) 728-5969.

• Courthouse,  110 W. Washington Street - Hartford City, IN 47348
• Phone: (765) 348-1130.
        Blackford County Recorder:  Phone: (765) 348-2207.
  
  

Harrison Township is located in northeastern Blackford county, with the Salamonie River meandering through the northeastern corner, passing Montpelier and Matamoras to the east.
Harrison Township communities include: Matamoras and Montpelier.
• Blackford County, Indiana Home Page, by Dennis Walker
  • Montpelier Index
  • A Short History of Montpelier

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  Jackson Township is located in southeastern Blackford county.
  Jackson Township communities include: Converse, Millgrove and Trenton.  The town of Ridertown is situated on the Blackford and Jay County line.  In addition, a small portion of the outskirts of the Jay County city of Dunkirk extend into the southeastern corner of Jackson Township, Blackford County.

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  Licking Township is located in southwestern Blackford county.
  Licking Township communities include: Hartford City (the county seat), Renner and Shamrock Lake.
• Hartford City, Indiana
• Blackford County, Indiana Home Page, by Dennis Walker
  • Hartford City Index
  • A brief Hartford City Historical Sketch
  • Area Churches
• Blackford County Historical Society
   321 North High Street - P.O. Box 264 - Hartford City, IN 47348.
• The Hartford City Public Library
   314 N High Street - Hartford City, IN  47348 Phone:  (765) 348-1720.


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Washington Township is located in northwestern Blackford county.
Washington Township communities include: Roll.

• Indiana Atlas & Gazetteer.  First Edition, Second Printing.  Yarmouth, Maine:  Delorme.  1998.
• School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.