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Blackford County, Indiana

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1838formed

12,112pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Hartford City, Montpelier.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Indiana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Blackford titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Blackford County Courthouse	Hartford City	Building	1980
First Presbyterian Church	Hartford City	Building	1986
Hartford City Courthouse Square Historic District	Hartford City	District	2006
Montpelier Carnegie Library	Montpelier	Building	2007

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Blackford was formed in 1838 (1838-04-02) from Jay.

BLACKFORD created from JAY. Mistakes in description corrected 29 January 1839 and 5 December 1842.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Blackford County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,226	4,122	8,020	17,213	14,084	13,783	14,026	14,792	15,570	14,048	12,112

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

16 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Balsley Cemetery	40.56363	-85.43222
Center Cemetery	40.53056	-85.38938
Greenlawn Cemetery	40.45646	-85.34863
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery	40.38226	-85.21469
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery	40.44865	-85.35108
Leffler Cemetery	40.49963	-85.44547
Lion Cemetery	40.4592	-85.33877
Mills Cemetery	40.47953	-85.4271
Mount Tabor Cemetery	40.38037	-85.21593
Odd Fellows Cemetery	40.56434	-85.2872
Personett Cemetery	40.40641	-85.27182
Shields Cemetery	40.48228	-85.40185
Stoll Cemetery	40.50475	-85.38696
Twibell Cemetery	40.5156	-85.25883
Wayman Cemetery	40.40724	-85.21625
Woodlawn Cemetery	40.55309	-85.2698

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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