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UNION COUNTY, Indiana
History <-> Genealogy
*First created in 1821 from Fayette,
Franklin
and Wayne
counties.
*County seat: Liberty.
Located in eastern Indiana, with the state of Ohio at it's eastern
boundary.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include: Brownsville, Charlottesville, Clifton, Cottage
Grove, Dunlapsville, Five Points, Goodwins Corner, Hopeville, Kitchel, Liberty,
Lotus, Philomath,
Quakertown, Roseburg,
Salem, West
College Corner, Witts Station and
Yankee Town.
Click HERE for General UNION County
information and
links, OR
Select a TOWN from above to go to the township location, with links
and
information specific to that area, OR, select a TOWNSHIP from the following table:
Please note: Though the information on this web page is
believed to be correct, the possibility of error remains. Please
notify the webmaster
should an error
be found.
Surrounding Counties:
N = Wayne
County, IN ENE = Preble County, Ohio
W = Fayette
County, IN UNION COUNTY
ESE = Butler County, Ohio
S = Franklin
County, IN
See American Local History Network State
Selection
Page to visit Ohio.
- Indico.net for Union County Profile.
- Welcome to Union
County,
Indiana:
- Union
County Historical Society
P.O. Box 143 - Liberty, Indiana 47353.
Hours: Sundays, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., during
June
through August.
- countyhistory.com:
for Union
County, by Ronald Branson!
- Indiana State
Library.
140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
- familysearch.org - 1880
Census Index
-
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.
- The
Political
Graveyard, for Union County,
Indiana, created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, a web site
about U.S. political history, politicians and cemeteries.
- Indiana State
Archives.
6440 E. 30th Street - Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone:
(317) 591-5222
- Family History Resources
- 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.
- Whitewater
Memorial State Park and Map
of
the Park
1418 S. State Road 101 - Liberty, IN 47353 Phone:
(765)
458-5565. - Union County Public Library
- 2 East Seminary Street - Liberty, IN 47353 Phone:
(765) 458-5355 or 1-800-694-6300.
- INGenWeb for Union
County Genealogy, hosted by Karen Coffey.
- MyLocal.IN for
Union County
Contacts to obtain many documents and certified copies: - Union
County Health Department (For Birth & Death Records from ca.
1882)
- 26 West Union Street, Room 11 - Liberty, IN 47353-1350 Phone: (317)
458-5393.
- Union County
Courthouse
- County Clerk: (For Marriage and Divorce
Records)
26 West Union Street - Liberty, IN 47353 Phone:
(765)
458-6121. - Union County Recorder (For Land Records)
26 West Union Street - Liberty, IN 47353
Phone:
(765) 458-5434. - Union County Surveyor's Office (For Maps) -
26 West Union Street - Liberty, IN 47353
Phone:
(765) 458-7664 or 458-5496.
Union County Communities
Brownsville Township
communities include:
Brownsville, Clifton, Philomath and Yankee Town. Hopesville and
Five
Points appear to have been located in Brownsville Township.
Center
Township communities include: Cottage Grove, Goodwins Corner,
Liberty (the county
seat) and Lotus. Salem and Cottage Grove are situated at the
Center
and Union Townships line.- Liberty,
Indiana: A Community Resume.
- Whitewater
Memorial State Park and Map
of
the Park
1418 S. State Road 101 - Liberty, IN 47353 Phone:
(765)
458-5565.
- Union County Public Library
- 2 East Seminary Street - Liberty, IN 47353
- Phone:
(765) 458-5355 or 1-800-694-6300.
Harmony
Township communities include: Quakertown. Brookville Lake
extends, north to south,
through Harmony township. - Quakerstown, UNION COUNTY
(Harmony
Township)
Harrison
Township communities include: Kitchel and Witts Station. -
Kitchel, UNION
COUNTY (Harrison Township)
- Witts Station, UNION COUNTY (Harrison Township)
Liberty
Township communities include: Dunlapsville and Roseburg. -
Dunlapsville,
UNION COUNTY (Liberty Township)
Union Township communities
include: Billingsville, Charlottesville and West College
Corner. Salem and Cottage
Grove are situated at the Center and Union Townships line. There
is
a neighboring community of College Corner, just east of West College
Corner,
in the state of Ohio.
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.
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McRoden Mensch,
Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching on-site, 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.
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