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Kosciusko County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
18historic places
—earliest paper
1835formed
80,240pop. 2020
37cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 18 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Warsaw, North Webster, Clunette.

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 Kosciusko titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 18 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

18 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Chinworth BridgeWarsawStructure1997
DIXIE (sternwheeler)North WebsterStructure2009
East Fort Wayne Street Historic DistrictWarsawBuilding1993
Hall FarmClunetteBuilding1992
Kosciusko County JailWarsawBuilding1978
Leesburg Historic DistrictLeesburgDistrict1993
Little Crow Milling Company FactoryWarsawBuilding2018
Mock SchoolSyracuseBuilding2010
Orr, Robert, Polygonal BarnNorth WebsterBuilding1993
Pierceton Historic DistrictPiercetonDistrict1992
Pound, John, StoreOswegoBuilding1992
Silver Lake Historic DistrictSilver LakeDistrict1992
Warner House-Warner SchoolhouseNorth WebsterBuilding2023
Warsaw Courthouse Square Historic DistrictWarsawDistrict1982
Warsaw Courthouse Square Historic District (Boundary Increase)WarsawDistrict1993
Warsaw Cut Glass CompanyWarsawBuilding1984
Winona Lake Historic DistrictWinona LakeDistrict1993
Zimmer, Justin, HouseWarsawBuilding1991

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kosciusko was formed in 1835 (1835-02-07) from unknown / original county.

KOSCIUSKO created from Non-County Area 12 attached to CASS, Non-County Area 13 attached to ELKHART, and Non-County Area 15 attached to GRANT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

80k42k4,1701840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,17017,41826,49429,10927,12029,56133,00240,37359,55574,05780,240

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

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

Cemeteries — 37 of 37 listed
NameLatLon
Brumbaugh Cemetery41.42937-85.9057
Byers Cemetery41.41629-85.6656
Cable Cemetery41.35712-85.74898
Circle Cemetery41.12202-85.71382
Clemmers Fishers Ross Cemetery41.10266-85.7644
Clunette Cemetery41.32727-85.92805
Etna Green East Cemetery41.27377-86.04301
Etna Green West Cemetery41.27478-86.05588
Fairview Cemetery41.10807-85.946
Franklin Cemetery41.07124-85.94246
Germantown Cemetery41.1081-85.91105
Gospel Hill Cemetery41.08182-85.83945
Graber Cemetery41.36116-85.98889
Graceland Cemetery41.124-85.87983
Groves Cemetery41.25115-85.79665
Hamman Cemetery41.10772-85.99561
Highland Cemetery41.26099-85.94937
Hillcrest Cemetery41.18533-85.71007
Island Cemetery41.38977-85.89555
Lake Bethel Cemetery41.39454-85.6626
Lakeside Cemetery41.3831-85.82694
Lakeview Cemetery41.07768-85.89491
McClintic Cemetery41.37561-85.68609
Mentone Cemetery41.17043-86.03406
Milford Cemetery41.42144-85.86249
Nichols Cemetery41.09128-86.04666
North Webster Cemetery41.33004-85.69747
Nye Cemetery41.2231-85.88249
Oak Grove Cemetery41.33349-85.65798
Oakwood Cemetery41.24546-85.83955
Pleasant View Cemetery41.40394-85.79666
Saint Francis Cemetery41.1848-85.72982
Tamarack Cemetery41.40533-85.75999
Union Cemetery41.23285-85.93656
Union Cemetery41.37897-85.72829
Weybright Cemetery41.43618-85.72088
Wooden Cemetery41.21677-85.99643

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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