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Clark County, Indiana

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
25historic places
—earliest paper
1801formed
121,093pop. 2020
31cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 25 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Clarksville, Jeffersonville, Charlestown.

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 Clark titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 25 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

25 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Abbott-Holloway FarmBethlehemBuilding1994
Bottorff-McCulloch FarmCharlestownBuilding1995
Centralia Court Historic DistrictClarksvilleDistrict2022
Clark-McKinley Historic DistrictClarksvilleDistrict2023
Downs, Thomas, HouseCharlestownBuilding1984
Ferguson, Benjamin, HouseCharlestownBuilding1983
Francis Avenue Historic DistrictClarksvilleDistrict2025
French, Henry, HouseJeffersonvilleBuilding1989
Grisamore HouseJeffersonvilleBuilding1983
Howard HomeJeffersonvilleBuilding1973
Howes', Mitchell P., Lime Kiln and QuarryUticaSite2013
Indiana State Prison South-Indiana Reformatory- Colgate-Palmolive Historic DistrictClarksvilleDistrict2019
Lincoln Heights Historic DistrictClarksvilleDistrict2020
M. Fine & Sons BuildingJeffersonvilleBuilding2020
Old Clarksville SiteClarksvilleBuilding1974
Old Jeffersonville Historic DistrictJeffersonvilleDistrict1987
Patterson Place Historic DistrictClarksvilleDistrict2023
Pleasant Ridge Historic DistrictCharlestownDistrict2018
Smith-Sutton SiteJeffersonvilleSite2012
Spring Street Freight HouseJeffersonvilleBuilding2007
Starkweather's, Samuel, Lime Kiln and QuarryUticaSite2013
Tyler, Moses H., Company Lime Kiln and Quarry No. 1UticaSite2013
Victory Court Historic DistrictClarksvilleDistrict2025
Watson HouseCharlestownBuilding1983
Work, John, House and Mill SiteCharlestownDistrict2001

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Clark was formed in 1801 (1801-02-03) from Knox.

CLARK created by Indiana Territory from KNOX; included a small area of present Ohio near Ft. Recovery.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Clark County population from 1810 to 2020 (Census historical series).

121k63k5,6701810184018801920196020002020
1810182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,6708,70914,59520,50228,61031,83529,38131,02048,33062,79588,83896,472121,093

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

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

Cemeteries — 31 of 31 listed
NameLatLon
Allen Cemetery38.42812-85.80336
Baird Cemetery38.41728-85.63968
Barnes Community Cemetery38.6045-85.58885
Barnett Cemetery38.39278-85.67781
Beswick Cemetery38.60518-85.67482
Bottorff Cemetery38.42057-85.68415
Bowery Cemetery38.49656-85.78554
Crown Hill Cemetery38.55944-85.53899
Eastern Cemetery38.2828-85.73011
Friends Cemetery38.3825-85.64573
Hendrick Cemetery38.41092-85.79537
Hickory Grove Cemetery38.44372-85.84085
Kern Cemetery38.55718-85.66928
Long Cemetery38.4162-85.71035
Miller Cemetery38.45771-85.8649
Mount Zion Cemetery38.53577-85.77751
Mountain Grove Cemetery38.51326-85.81958
Olive Branch Cemetery38.50443-85.56777
Pleasant Grove Cemetery38.41922-85.71962
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery38.42566-85.9484
Robinson Robertson Cemetery38.49144-85.68441
Saint Anthonys Cemetery38.28415-85.72857
Saint Michaels Cemetery38.48948-85.66655
Seatick Cemetery38.52953-85.68203
Silver Creek Cemetery38.43929-85.74351
Smith Cemetery38.41019-85.77399
States Cemetery38.5481-85.62851
Turner Cemetery38.55105-85.49131
Union Cemetery38.38688-85.66514
Walnut Ridge Cemetery38.30256-85.74662
Worrell Cemetery (historical)38.43756-85.72968

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

Historical markers

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