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Huntington County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
21historic places
—earliest paper
1832formed
36,662pop. 2020
25cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 21 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Huntington, LaFontaine, Warren.

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 Huntington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 21 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

21 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Chenoweth-Coulter FarmLaFontaineBuilding2009
Chief Richardville House and Miami Treaty GroundsHuntingtonDistrict1985
Drover Town Historic DistrictHuntingtonDistrict2006
German Reformed ChurchHuntingtonBuilding1985
Hawley Heights Historic DistrictHuntingtonDistrict2003
Hotel LaFontaineHuntingtonBuilding1984
Huntington Courthouse Square Historic DistrictHuntingtonDistrict1992
Kline, John and Minerva, FarmHuntingtonDistrict1988
Memorial ParkHuntingtonDistrict2017
Moore/Carlew BuildingHuntingtonBuilding1983
North Jefferson Street Historic DistrictHuntingtonDistrict2010
Old Plat Historic DistrictHuntingtonDistrict2000
Purviance, David Alonzo and Elizabeth, HouseHuntingtonBuilding1994
Purviance, Samuel, HouseHuntingtonBuilding1986
Rangeline Road BridgeHuntingtonStructure1998
Sunken GardensHuntingtonSite1997
Taylor-Zent HouseHuntingtonBuilding1982
Victory Noll-St. Felix Friary Historic DistrictHuntingtonDistrict2004
Warren Downtown Historic DistrictWarrenDistrict2022
William Street SchoolHuntingtonBuilding1986
Young-Yentes-Mattern FarmHuntingtonBuilding2001

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Huntington was formed in 1832 (1832-02-02) from parts of ADAMS New Purchase attached to ALLEN, Grant.

HUNTINGTON created from parts of ADAMS New Purchase attached to ALLEN and GRANT, and from Non-County Area 8 attached to ALLEN, and Non-County Area 15 attached to GRANT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

38k20k1,5791840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,57914,86721,80528,90131,67129,93131,40033,81435,59638,07536,662

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

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

Cemeteries — 25 of 25 listed
NameLatLon
Barnes Cemetery40.82448-85.41108
Feighner Cemetery40.88942-85.39853
France Cemetery40.93726-85.41691
Funk Cemetery40.97282-85.62219
Gardens of Memory Cemetery40.66446-85.61341
German Settlement Cemetery40.7993-85.52497
Loon Creek Cemetery40.81339-85.4569
Maple Grove Cemetery40.90077-85.59369
Monument City Memorial Cemetery40.78587-85.60275
Mount Calvary Cemetery40.90587-85.51664
Mount Hope Cemetery40.87729-85.51776
Pilgrims Rest Cemetery40.90376-85.51466
Pleasant Grove Cemetery40.84392-85.52624
Purviance Cemetery40.72185-85.50696
Red Men Cemetery40.67066-85.41321
Rees Cemetery40.77804-85.45509
Riverside Cemetery40.87087-85.59636
Saint Johns Cemetery40.94683-85.6337
Star of Hope Cemetery40.82681-85.41226
Taylor Cemetery40.6976-85.45127
Thompson Cemetery40.70842-85.35322
Union Cemetery40.98938-85.44542
West Union Cemetery40.74161-85.44383
Woodlawn Cemetery40.68167-85.41269
Yankeetown Cemetery40.7563-85.38888

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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