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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.
• Shelbyville News Online
• School on Colescott Street Will End Long History, by David Craig - School No. 3, or the "Hill Building", was constructed in 1882-83, to serve the west side of Shelbyville.
• Folks of Fairland Fought Fire in 1907 (August 12, 1907), by Ron Hamilton - "Fairland in Flames! Firefighters Win!"
• Centenarian's Heart Has Always Been in Shelbyville, by Kelley L. Simison.
• countyhistory.com: for Shelby 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.
• WWII Servicemen Index
• Images from the County
• County Newspaper Holdings (in Indianapolis)
• 1820 Indiana Census Index, by Lori!
• Rootsweb: Shelby County, Indiana Genealogy
  
• The Grover Museum: Shelby County Historical Society
   52 West Washington Street - Shelbyville, IN 46176.
• Shelby County Chamber of Commerce
• History of Shelby County, Indiana - "...settlers were here as early as 1818.
Before railroads, Michigan Road was the main transportation route, which helped establish Fountaintown, Freeport, Marion, and Morristown..."

• Shelbyville Main Street - virtual tour
  
• Statistical Profile of Shelby County, Indiana
• Access Indiana for Shelby County - information
• Shelbyville - Shelby County Public Library
     57 West Broadway -Shelbyville, IN 46176  Phone: (317) 398-7121.
• Genealogy and Local History - Collection includes Shelby County Histories, Newspapers (from 1910), Telephone Books, City Directories and School Yearbooks.
• Library History from 1822 to 2003.
• Library of Congress: American Memory All Collections Search - enter topic or Indiana town and/or county location to find available online photos, maps, and more!

Contacts to obtain many documents and cerified copies:
• Shelby County Health Department (For Birth & Death Records from ca. 1882)
  1600 E. State Road, 44 # B - Shelbyville, IN 46176  Phone: (317) 392-6470.
• Shelby County Circuit Court Clerks (For Marriage and Divorce Records)
    407 S. Harrison Street # 206 - Shelbyville, IN 46176 Phone: (317) 392-6360.
• Shelby County Clerk
   407 S. Harrison Street # 200 - Shelbyville, IN 46176 Phone: (317) 392-6320.
• Shelby County Recorder
  407 S. Harrison Street - Shelbyville, IN 46176  Phone: (317) 392-6370.
• Shelby County Surveyor (For County Maps)
  
  1600 E. State Road 44,  # A - Shelbyville, IN 46176  Phone: (317) 392-6481.

Addison Township communities include:  Crestmoor, Hildebrand Village, Meiks, Riley Village, Shelbyville (the county seat) and Walkerville.

• Shelbyville News
• Shelbyville Main Street - virtual tour
  

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Brandywine Township communities include:  Clover Village and Fairland.

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Hanover Township communities include:  Freeport, Gwynneville and Morristown.

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Hendricks Township communities include:  Bengal, Marietta and Smithland.

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Jackson Township communities include:  Mt. Auburn.

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Liberty Township communities include:  Blue Ridge, Meltzer, Middletown and Waldron.

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Marion Township communities include:  Candleglo Village, Knighthood Village and Marion.

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Moral Township communities include:  Brookfield, Green Meadows, London, Pleasant View, Southeast Manor and Sugar Creek.

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Noble Township communities include:  Geneva.  The town of St. Paul, located primarily in Decatur County is at the Shelby and Decatur County line, with a portion extending into Noble Township, Shelby County.

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Shelby Township communities include:  Fenns and Prescott.  Wilson is situated at the Washington and Shelby townships line.

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Sugar Creek Township communities include:  Boggstown.

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UnionTownship communities include:  Rays Crossing.

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Van Buren Township communities include:  Fountaintown.

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Washington Township communities include:  Camp Flat Rock, Flat Rock, Lewis Creek and Norristown.  Wilson is situated at the Washington and Shelby townships line.

• Last Will and Testament of George HILDEBRAND, of Flat Rock, transcribed by Antoinette Waughtel Sorenson, online at rootsweb.com.

• 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.