Greene County, Indiana

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

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Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for Gen. Nathaniel Greene, a participant in the American Revolution

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History

Greene County was organized effective February 5, 1821. It was named for Gen. Nathanael Greene, who commanded the southern theater in the Revolutionary War, eventually forcing Cornwallis to retreat to Yorktown.

Greene County is divided into 15 Civil Townships as follows: Beech Creek, Cass, Center, Fairplay, Grant, Highland, Jackson, Jefferson, Richland, Smith, Stafford, Stockton, Taylor, Washington and Wright.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 546 square miles (1,414 km²), of which 542 square miles (1,403 km²) is land and 4 square miles (11 km²) (0.77%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Northeast: Owen County; Monroe County
Southeast: Lawrence County; Martin County
Southwest: Daviess County; Knox County
West: Sullivan County
Northwest: Clay County

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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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