*First created in 1790.
*County seat: Vincennes.
Located in southwestern Indiana, with the Wabash River as it's western border, and the state of Illinois just across the river.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Bandmill, Beal, Bicknell, Bruceville, Busseron, Cantaloupe, Decker Chapel, Edwardsport, Emison, Freelandville, Fritchton, Iona, Johnstown, Little Rock, Monroe City, Oaktown, Orrville, Purcell, Ragsdale, Ridgeville, St. Thomas, Sandborn, Sisson, Storks Ferry, Twin Bridges, Verne, Vincennes, Vollmer, Westphalia, Wheatland, and Willis.
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• City of Vincennes, Indiana
• Vincennes History
  
• Knox County Economic Development and Vincennes, Indiana
  
• Knox County, Indiana Township Trustees
• Vincennes / Knox County Convention & Visitors Bureau
  
• Vincennes Historic Attractions
• Vincennes State Historic Sites
  
• The Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous
• THE LOUP-GAROU LEGENDS OF OLD VINCENNES
• The Northwest Territory Alliance
• George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes, KNOX, IN
• The Political Graveyard, for Knox County, Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
• Pecan Cultivars: 'Indiana' Native "...seedling discovered in the early 1900's by M. J. Niblack and W. C. Reed. Original tree stood west of Oaktown, Knox County, IN..."
• Interactive Map of Knox County, Indiana.
• 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.
• Indiana Historical Bureau: Knox County Convention Election, 1816
• 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)
• Vincennes Newspapers Database,  1804-1827
  
• WWII Servicemen Index
• countyhistory.com: for Knox County, by Ronald Branson!
• 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
• USGenWeb: Knox County Indiana Archives
• 1820 Knox County, Indiana Census, submitted by Sue Montgomery
• 1830 Knox County, Indiana Census, submitted by Sue Montgomery
• INGenWeb for Knox County Genealogy & History, by John Stangle
• The Doughboy Center - presented by The Great War Society.
• World War II Veterans Online Information Center
• USA Veterans' Administration
• Knox County Development Corporation
• Vincennes, Indiana Online - Convention and Visitors Bureau
  
• Northwest Territory Genealogical Society
   Lewis Historical Library - Vincennes University - Vincennes, IN 47591
• Old Northwest Corporation
   Old French House - P.O. Box 1979 - Vincennes, IN 47591  Phone: (812) 885-4173 or
   Museum: (812) 882-0199.
• Vincennes Historical & Antiquarian Society
  
   Box 487 - Vincennes, IN 47591.
• Knox County Public Library
  
   502 N. 7th Street - Vincennes, IN 47591  Phone: (812) 886-4380.

McGrady-Brockman Regional Genealogical/Historical Center
 614 N. 7th Street - Vincennes, Indiana  47591
Phone : (812) 886-4380
• Knox County Health Department (For Birth & Death Certificates from ca. 1882)
   624 Broadway Street - Vincennes, IN 47591-2028  Phone: (812) 882-8080.
• Knox Circuit Court Clerk (For Marriage, Divorce & Probate Records)
   Courthouse - 101 No. 7th Street, Vincennes, IN 47591
                     Phone: (812) 885-2521.   

Busseron Township communities include:   Busseron, Emison and Oaktown.
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Decker Township communities include:  Decker Chapel, Litttle Rock, Orrville and Sisson.


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Harrison Township communities include:  Monroe City, Ridgeville, Verne and Willis.
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Johnson Township communities include:  Cantaloupe, Decker, Iona, Purcell, St. Thomas and Vollmer.
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Palmyra Township communities include:  Fritchton.


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Steen Township communities include:  Storks Ferry and Wheatland.
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Vigo Township communities include:  Bicknell, Edwardsport, Sandborn and Westphalia.  A portion of Bicknell extends into Washington Township from Vigo Township.

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Vincennes Township communities include:  Bandmill, Beal, Twin Bridges and the City of Vincennes (the county seat).
• Directory of Vincennes City Offices
• City of Vincennes, IN
• City of Vincennes, Indiana
  
• Knox County, Indiana Township Trustees
• Knox County Economic Development and Vincennes, Indiana
• Vincennes / Knox County Convention & Visitors Bureau
  
• Vincennes Historic Attractions
• Vincennes State Historic Sites



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Washington Township communities include:  Bruceville, Johnstown and Ragsdale.  A portion of Bicknell extends into Washington Township from Vigo Township.
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Widner Township communities include:  Freelandville.
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• 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.