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HUNTINGTON
COUNTY, Indiana
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*First created in 1832.
*County seat: Huntington.
Located in northeastern Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Andrews, Banquo,
Bippus, Bowerstown,
Braken, Buckeye,
Goblesville, Harlansburg, Huntington,
Lancaster, Mahon, Majenica,
Makin, Mardenis,
Markle, Milo, Mount
Etna, Pleasant Plain, Plum Tree, Roanoke, Roanoke
Station, Rock Creek, Simpson, Toledo,
and Warren.
Select this LINK to see GENERAL Huntington
County
information and links.
Select from the TOWN list above to learn which township the
community
is located in, and view information and links specific to that area.
Select from the TOWNSHIPs Table
below
to view information and links specific to the township.
Please note: Though the information on this web page is believed
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the webmaster
should an error be found.
Surrounding Counties:
N = Whitley
County, IN NE = Allen
County, IN
W = Wabash
County, IN HUNTINGTON COUNTY
E = Wells
County, IN
SW & S = Grant
County, IN SE & E = Wells
County, IN
- Huntington County, Indiana (Official
Web Site)
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Use the query form, at
USGS, to map 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.
- Welcome to Huntington
County, Indiana
- Huntington
County,
Indiana - A Great Place To Be!
- Visit Huntington
County, Indiana - Visitor & Convention Bureau
- 1895 Map
of Huntington County, IN
- The Wabash & Erie
Canal ( 1835 - 1874) - researched by Terry Pepper.
- Historic Forks of
the
Wabash, by Dwight Ericsson.
- The
Wabash and Erie Canal, by Dwight Ericsson.
- Wabash River
Heritage
Corridor Commission - Indiana
Counties in
the Wabash River Corridor MAP
- Indiana Pioneer
Cemeteries Restoration Project
- "...Five men from the Hoosier state have been elected vice
president: Schuyler Colfax in 1868, Thomas A. Hendricks in 1884,
Charles W. Fairbanks in 1904, Thomas R. Marshall in 1912 and 1916..."
and J.
Danforth Quayle , with connections to Huntington, in 1988.
- countyhistory.com:
for Huntington
County, by Ronald Branson!
- Indiana State
Library.
140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
- Social
Security
Death Index Interactive Search, on Rootsweb
- Huntington Herald-Press
Online news.
- INGenWeb for Huntington
County Genealogy, by Mark Mann
- Funeral Homes:
- Miami
Nation
of Indians
- P.O. Box 41 - Peru, Indiana 46970 Phone: (765) 473-9631.
- The web site was at
www.miamiindiansofindiana.org, however, it does not appear to be
accessible at this time.
- Annuity
Payroll: June 12, 1895,
on the USGenWeb for
Miami County
- The MYAAMIA Project,
from the Miami Nation and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
- Indians of
Indiana - Guide which includes migration maps,
from Ray's History
and Guide to Terre Haute
-
Information about the Illinois-Miami
language.
- Miami History, by
Lee Sultzman
- Miami Tribe of
Oklahoma
-
Miami Tribal Library
- Indian Nations -
Indian Territory, for the
Miami
Nation, online at the Oklahoma USGenWeb
-
Native American Census Enumeration - information about
- Huntington
City/Township Public Library visit the Indiana Room
200 W. Market Street, Huntington, Indiana
46750-2655
Phone: (260) 356-0824
Hours: 9-8 Monday through Thursday; 9-5 on Friday and Saturday. -
Huntington
County Health Dept. (For Birth & Death Records from ca. 1882)
Courthouse, Room 205 - Huntington, IN
46750-2868 Phone: (260) 358-4831. - Huntington County
Clerk (For Marriage, Divorce and Probate Records)
201 North Jefferson - Huntington, IN 46750.
County Clerk - Phone: (260) 358-4819. - Huntington County
Clerk, Auditor
and Recorder's Offices are located at:
201 North Jefferson - Huntington, IN 46750.
County Clerk
- Phone: (260) 358-4819.
County
Recorder - Phone: (260) 358-4848.
Huntington County Communities
Clear Creek Township communities
include: Goblesville.
Dallas Township communities
include: Andrews.
Monument City Pike (presumably a street name)
appears on the 1910 Census of Dallas Township.
- Andrews Public Library
30 E. Madison Street - Andrews, IN 46702
Phone: (260) 786-3574.
Huntington Township communities
include: Huntington (the county seat). - Huntington, Indiana
by Bill Holden
- Huntington Herald-Press
Online news.
- INGenWeb for Huntington
County Genealogy by Mark Mann
- Office of Community Development: Individual
National Register Properties
- Huntington
City/Township Public Library visit the Indiana Room
200 W. Market Street, Huntington, Indiana
46750-2655
Phone: (260) 356-0824
Hours: 9-8 Monday through Thursday; 9-5 on Friday and Saturday. -
Huntington
County Health Dept. (For Birth & Death Records from ca. 1882)
Courthouse, Room 205 - Huntington, IN
46750-2868 Phone: (260) 358-4831. - Huntington County
Clerk (For Marriage, Divorce and Probate Records)
201 North Jefferson - Huntington, IN 46750.
County Clerk - Phone: (260) 358-4819. - Huntington County
Clerk, Auditor and Recorder's Offices are located at:
201 North Jefferson - Huntington, IN 46750.
County Auditor - Phone: (260) 358-4809.
County Recorder - Phone: (260) 358-4848.
Jackson Township communities
include: Mahon, Roanoke and Roanoke Station. - Roanoke
Public Library
126 N. Main Sreet - Roanoke, IN
46783 Phone: (260) 672-3306.
Jefferson Township communities
include: Milo, Mt. Etna and Pleasant Plain. A portion of
Mt. Etna extends into Lancaster
township.
Lancaster
Township communities include: Lancaster and Majenica. The
community of Harlansburg is situated at the Polk and Lancaster
townships line.
Polk Township communities include:
This is a rural township, with the Salamonie Lake Project encompassing
a large portion of the center of Polk township. The community of
Harlansburg is situated at the Polk and Lancaster townships line.
Rock
Creek Township
communities include: Markle, Plum Tree, Rock Creek and Toledo. -
Markle Public Library
155 W. Sparks Street - Markle, IN
46770 Phone: (260) 758-3332.
Salamonie Township communities
include: Buckeye and Warren. - Warren Public Library
123 E. 3rd - Warren, IN 46792
Phone: (260) 375-3450.
Union Township communities
include:
Bowerstown, Mardenis and Simpson.
Warren Township communities
include: Bippus, Bracken and Makin.
Wayne Township communities
include:
Banquo.
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PROFESSIONAL HISTORICAL GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann
McRoden
Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsite, and with the vast resources of The
Allen County
Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical
collections in North America. Search the Library's
online catalogue to see some of the printed resources available for
a
location or topic.
Printed resources for this page include:
- 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.
- Huntington County Anniversary and Homecoming and Historical
Pageant, August 8-12, 1928. (n. p.).
- Huntington County, Indiana, 1834-1993. Huntington
County Historical Society. (Compiler). Paducah,
Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company. 1993.
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