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Jefferson County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
14historic places
—earliest paper
1811formed
33,147pop. 2020
54cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973; 4 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Madison, Hanover, Lancaster.

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 Jefferson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Allen, Lemuel, FarmMadisonBuilding2016
Crawford-Whitehead-Ross HouseMadisonBuilding1992
Crowe-Garritt HouseHanoverBuilding1980
Eleutherian College NHLLancasterBuilding1993
Hanover College Historic DistrictHanoverDistrict2024
Hendricks, Thomas A., LibraryHanoverBuilding1982
Hoyt, Lyman and Asenath, HouseLancasterBuilding2003
Jefferson County JailMadisonBuilding1973
Lanier Mansion NHLMadisonBuilding1994
Madison Historic District NHLMadisonDistrict1973
Oakdale SchoolMadisonBuilding1993
Shrewsbury, Charles L., House NHLMadisonBuilding1994
St. Stephen's African Methodist Episcopal ChurchHanoverBuilding2000
Wolf, Mathias, FarmMadisonBuilding2016

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Jefferson was formed in 1811 (1811-01-01) from Clark, Dearborn.

JEFFERSON created by Indiana Territory from CLARK and DEARBORN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Jefferson County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

33k21k8,0381820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
8,03816,61425,03625,97722,91320,70919,91221,61324,06130,41931,70533,147

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

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

Cemeteries — 54 of 54 listed
NameLatLon
Baxter Cemetery38.75635-85.38658
Bayless Cemetery38.75674-85.38659
Big Creek Cemetery38.75514-85.38674
Bland Cemetery38.87198-85.49744
Blankenship Cemetery38.74062-85.54434
Bryner Miner Cemetery38.77137-85.40563
Carmel Cemetery38.70207-85.50773
Carmel Cemetery38.78066-85.6752
Clashman Cemetery38.82752-85.53264
College Hill Cemetery38.83159-85.51387
Conner Cemetery38.91379-85.26771
Fairmount Cemetery38.75756-85.38603
Ford Cemetery38.78136-85.52714
Grandview Memorial Gardens38.87402-85.37479
Greenbriar Cemetery38.72366-85.48909
Hanover Cemetery38.70952-85.46419
Hebron Church Cemetery38.84012-85.36823
Higbie Cemetery38.76977-85.44051
Hopewell Cemetery38.78151-85.51821
Indian Kentuck Cemetery38.87255-85.32301
Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery38.75336-85.40499
Jewish Cemetery38.76326-85.40609
Joyce Cemetery38.77124-85.25355
Kent Cemetery38.74108-85.54496
Kinnear Cemetery38.79011-85.50724
Landon Cemetery38.74-85.53527
Lawler Cemetery38.78309-85.54868
Lloyd Cemetery38.75808-85.55441
McKay Cemetery38.81654-85.51014
Mermoud Cemetery38.9126-85.25446
Milton Cemetery38.80926-85.27401
Monroe Cemetery38.75692-85.38578
Neavill Cemetery38.78481-85.5136
Nelson Cemetery38.84526-85.55859
Ogden Cemetery38.83169-85.52749
Old Bethel Cemetery38.68649-85.46766
Olive Branch Cemetery38.80431-85.3505
Pullum Cemetery38.90616-85.26634
Reul Cemetery38.76674-85.30595
Risk Cemetery38.89475-85.25663
Robertson Cemetery38.79267-85.64802
Rykers Ridge Cemetery38.77739-85.33169
Saint Anthony Cemetery38.8245-85.34106
Saint Joseph Cemetery38.75163-85.37801
Saint Patricks Cemetery38.75892-85.39002
Scotland Cemetery38.75272-85.5028
Shiloh Cemetery38.78888-85.51715
Slippery Point Cemetery38.72203-85.53959
Smith Cemetery38.84172-85.36912
Springdale Cemetery38.74162-85.38812
Thornton Cemetery38.87982-85.25166
Valley Cemetery38.7567-85.63578
White River Cemetery38.72249-85.54942
Zion Cemetery38.6282-85.48948
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Calloway Station38.84034-85.46218

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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