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Carroll County, Indiana

Carroll County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

 

County Seat: Delphi
Year Organized: 1828
Square Miles: 372
 
Court House:

P.O. Box 28
Delphi, IN 46923-0028

Etymology - Origin of County Name

named for Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence

 

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Carroll County was formed in 1828 and named for Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, who died in 1832. The county seat of Delphi was established the same year by General Samuel Milroy. The Wabash and Erie Canal, built through the county in 1840 and operating until the early 1870s, is among the county's most significant historical legacies

 

Carroll County is divided into 14 Civil Townships as follows: Adams, Burlington, Carrollton, Clay, Deer Creek, Democrat, Jackson, Jefferson, Liberty, Madison, Monroe, Rock Creek, Tippecanoe and Washington.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 375 square miles (971 kmē); 372 square miles (964 kmē) of it is land and 3 square miles (7 kmē) of it (0.75%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:
  • Northeast: Cass County
  • Southeast: Howard County
  • South: Clinton County
  • Southwest: Tippecanoe County
  • Northwest: White County
Cities and Towns:
- Burlington town Incorporated Area
- Camden town Incorporated Area
- Clay township  
- Deer Creek township  
- Delphi (County Seat) city Incorporated Area
- Democrat township  
- Flora town Incorporated Area
- Jackson township  
- Jefferson township  
- Rock Creek township  
- Yeoman town Incorporated Area
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

 

 

 

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