Huntington County, Indiana

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

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Etymology - Origin of County Name

named for Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence

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History

Huntington County was organized effective December 2, 1834 and Captain Elias Murray, then a member of the Legislature, proposed the name. Huntington is the County Seat.

Huntington County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Clear Creek, Dallas, Huntington, Jackson, Jefferson, Lancaster, Polk, Rock Creek, Salamonie, Union, Warren and Wayne.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 388 square miles (1,005 km²), of which 383 square miles (991 km²) is land and 5 square miles (14 km²) (1.38%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

North: Whitley County
Northeast: Allen County
Southeast: Wells County
Southwest: Grant County
West: Wabash 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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