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SCOTT COUNTY, Indiana
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*First created in 1820.
*County seat: Scottsburg.
Located in southern Indiana.
*Cities, Towns & Communities include:
Albion, Austin,
Blocher, Leota, Lexington, Nabb,
New Frankfort, Scottsburg
and Vienna.
The community of Nabb is located on the SCOTT and CLARK
county
line.
Select this LINK to see GENERAL Scott 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
to
be correct, the possibility of error remains. Please notify the webmaster should an
error
be found.
Surrounding Counties:
NW = Jackson
County, IN NNE = Jennings
County, MI
W = Washington
County, IN SCOTT COUNTY
E
= Jefferson
County, IN
S = Clark
County, IN
- Welcome
to Scott County: Gateway to Historic Hoosier Hills
- Scott County
Tourism
Information Center - includes events.
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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.
- For Scott County,
Indiana
History and Genealogy
- countyhistory.com:
for Scott
County, by Ronald Branson!
- Lexington
A Pioneer Town: The Original Seat of Scott County, Indiana
- Lexington
Mills - (Grist, Saw and Woolen Mills) "...A grist mill where
corn was ground was essential to any family..."
- The
Southern
Indiana Genealogical Society
P.O. Box 665 - New Albany, IN 47151-0665
(SIGS serves the 7 southern Indiana counties of Clark,
Crawford,
Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Scott and Washington.) - Biographical
Directory of the United States Congress, 1794-Present:
- Frank
Gardner (1872-1937) - Representative from Indiana; born on a
farm in Finley Township, near Scottsburg, Scott County, Ind.
- The Denton Family
Genealogy
Homepage: My
Montgomery
Family and Photos of the Montgomerys of Scott County,
Indiana, by Sue Montgomery-Cook.
This is a
wonderful
family history site!!!
- The
Political Graveyard: Scott County, Indiana by Lawrence
Kestenbaum, of Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
- INGenWeb for Scott
County Genealogy by Pat Mount.
- Scott
County Public Library
108 S. Main Street - Scottsburg, IN
47170
Phone: (812) 752-2751.
- Library's
Genealogy Collection.
- Scott County
Books Sold at the Scott County Public Library for the Scott
County
Public Library and the Scott County Historical Society. Offerings
include:
Early History of Scott County, Pioneer Life in Scott County, Centennial
History of Austin, History of Leota, Wills of Scott County, Probate
Court Records, Scottsburg Cemetery Book, Lexington, Finley, Vienna and
Jennings Townships' Cemetery Books, Pigeon Roost Massacre, and Persons
of Foreign Birth.
Contact for individual prices, which range from $3.50 to
$15.00,
plus postage if mailed.
Payment and requests to: Scott County Public Library,
Genealogy
Dept.
108 S. Main Street - Scottsburg, IN 47170.
- Purdue Extension: Scott County Cooperative
Extension
Service!
- Scott
County Genealogical Society, Inc.
1050 South Main Street, P.O. Box 23 - Scottsburg, IN
47170-0023,
Phone: (812) 752-3388, E-mail:
scgsi@c3bb.com
- Obituary and Death Notice Index to The Chronicle
Records and Obituaries
- Lexington
Historical
Society -
P.O. Box 238 - Lexington, IN 47138-0238
Phone: (812) 889-2044 E-Mail:
Steve.Carlisle@ecunet.org - Scott
County Historical Society -
P.O. Box 245 - Scottsburg, IN 47170-0245
Phone: (812) 889-2044 E-Mail: E-Mail: Jeannie
Carlisle
at scjc@scottsburg.com
- Scott County, News
183 East McClain Avenue - Scottsburg, IN
47170-1845 Phone: (812) 752-3171. - Indiana
State Library.
140 North Senate Avenue - Indianapolis, IN 46204-2296
- NARA: National Archives and
Records Administration
- 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: - Scott
County Health Department (For Birth & Death Records from ca.
1882)
1471 North Gardner Street - Scottsburg, IN 47170-7751
Phone:
(812) 752-8455. - Scott County Courthouse
1 East Mcclain Ave. - Scottsburg, IN 47170. - Scott
County Circuit Court
1 East Mcclain Ave. #212 - Scottsburg, IN
47170 Phone: (812) 752-8430. - Scott County Clerk (For
Marriage and Divorce
Records)
1 East Mcclain Ave. # 124 - Scottsburg, IN
47170 Phone: (812) 752-8420. - Scott County Recorder (For
Land Records)
1 East Mcclain Ave. # 100 - Scottsburg, IN
47170 Phone: (812) 752-8442. - Scott County Cartographer
1 East Mcclain Ave. # 126 - Scottsburg, IN 47170 Phone: (812) 752-8115.
Scott County Communities
Finley Township - Leota, SCOTT
COUNTY
(Finley Township)
Jennings
Township - Austin, SCOTT COUNTY (Jennings Township)
Johnson
Township - Albion, SCOTT COUNTY (Johnson Township)
- Blocher, SCOTT COUNTY (Johnson Township)
- New Frankfort, SCOTT COUNTY (Johnson Township)
Lexington
Township - Lexington, SCOTT COUNTY (Lexington Township)
- Lexington
A Pioneer Town: The Original Seat of Scott County, Indiana
- History
of Scott County Poor Farm -- Lexington
- Scott County, Indiana Census 1820
- Scott County, Indiana Names which appear in the Census of 1830
.
- Scott County Genealogical Society -
P.O. Box 258 - Lexington, IN 47138-0258 - Lexington
Historical
Society -
P.O. Box 238 - Lexington, IN 47138-0238
Phone: (812) 889-2044 E-Mail:
Steve.Carlisle@ecunet.org - Nabb, SCOTT (Lexington Township) /CLARK
(Washington Township) County
Line.
Vienna Township
- Scottsburg, SCOTT COUNTY (Vienna Township)
- Scott
County
Public Library
108 S. Main Street - Scottsburg, IN
47170
Phone: (812) 752-2751.
- Vienna, SCOTT COUNTY (Vienna Township)
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PROFESSIONAL
HISTORICAL
GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Ann
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.
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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