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Decatur County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
10historic places
—earliest paper
1822formed
26,472pop. 2020
57cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Greensburg, Burney, Westport.

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 Decatur titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bromwell Wire WorksGreensburgBuilding1990
Champ's Ford BridgeBurneyStructure2009
Decatur County CourthouseGreensburgBuilding1973
Greensburg Carnegie Public LibraryGreensburgBuilding1995
Greensburg Downtown Historic DistrictGreensburgDistrict1995
Harris, Bright B., HouseGreensburgBuilding2000
Jerman SchoolGreensburgBuilding2005
Knights of Pythias Building and TheatreGreensburgBuilding1978
Pleak, Strauther, Round BarnGreensburgBuilding1993
Westport Covered BridgeWestportStructure1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Decatur was formed in 1822 (1822-03-04) from DELAWARE New Purchase.

DECATUR created from DELAWARE New Purchase; mistake in description corrected 24 January 1828.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Decatur County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

26k16k5,88718301840188019201930196020002020
183018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5,88712,17117,29419,77919,51817,81317,72218,21820,01923,84124,55526,472

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

57 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 57 of 57 listed
NameLatLon
Antioch Cemetery39.26711-85.46473
Arnold Cemetery39.44316-85.61016
Asbury Cemetery39.199-85.6687
Burks Chapel Cemetery39.22934-85.51313
Butcher Cemetery39.42369-85.4581
Center Grove Cemetery39.28365-85.64664
Clarksburg Cemetery39.43396-85.34474
Columbia Cemetery39.26782-85.57525
Eddleman Cemetery39.15671-85.59857
Finley Cemetery39.21769-85.59474
Forsythe Cemetery39.35249-85.5296
Harris City Cemetery39.28305-85.52772
Hebron Cemetery39.37941-85.5697
Horseshoe Bend Cemetery39.17958-85.54974
Kingston Cemetery39.37865-85.39064
Lower Union Presbyterian Cemetery39.21891-85.61215
Maple Cemetery39.31002-85.3667
Mapleton Cemetery39.20523-85.546
McLaughlin Cemetery39.41741-85.46339
Memorial Cemetery39.39632-85.32076
Milford Cemetery39.35085-85.61773
Mount Aerie Cemetery39.23425-85.57733
Mount Carmel Cemetery39.40394-85.35628
Mount Hebron Cemetery39.39161-85.55
Mount Olivet Cemetery39.14533-85.68308
Mount Pisgah Cemetery39.24829-85.64328
Mount Pleasant Cemetery39.28224-85.50186
Mowery Cemetery39.33304-85.57911
Nauvoo Cemetery39.34204-85.67496
Old Burks Chapel Cemetery39.22944-85.5156
Old Rossburg Church Cemetery39.32442-85.32554
Old Westport Cemetery39.17719-85.57043
Patrick Cemetery39.27142-85.59199
Pumphrey Cemetery39.3404-85.63791
Rock Creek Cemetery39.1652-85.51704
Rodney Cemetery39.19957-85.52325
Ross Cemetery39.29417-85.32561
Rossburg Cemetery39.32301-85.3263
Saint Johns Cemetery39.33458-85.29756
Saint Marys Cemetery39.33007-85.47576
Saint Maurice Cemetery39.36623-85.33814
Saint Omer Cemetery39.4381-85.59808
Saint Paul Catholic Cemetery39.42525-85.62962
Sand Creek Cemetery39.32228-85.4636
Shiloh Cemetery39.39511-85.51098
Shirk Cemetery39.21128-85.64479
South Park Cemetery39.33033-85.48123
Springer Cemetery39.33789-85.41207
Springhill Cemetery39.43328-85.40428
Star Baptist Cemetery39.43029-85.55522
Swails Cemetery39.4286-85.48002
Swinney Cemetery39.30552-85.67278
Union Cemetery39.44569-85.51206
Union Chapel Cemetery39.40236-85.62466
Wesley Cemetery39.17555-85.62084
Westport Cemetery39.17415-85.59772
Wynn Cemetery39.14631-85.6835
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Springhill39.43338-85.42108

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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