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Miami County, Indiana

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17historic places

—earliest paper

1832formed

35,962pop. 2020

49cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 17 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1983; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Peru, Converse, Grissom Air Force Base.

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 Miami titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 17 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

17 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
B-17G "Flying Fortress" No. 44-83690	Grissom Air Force Base	Structure	1993
Brownell Block/Senger Dry Goods Company Building	Peru	Building	1983
Cole, James Omar, House	Peru	Building	1984
Converse Commercial Historic District	Converse	District	2016
Converse Depot	Converse	Building	1995
Converse-Jackson Township Public Library	Converse	Building	1999
Eikenberry Bridge	Chili	Structure	2006
Godfroy, Francis, Cemetery	Peru	Site	1984
Godfroy’s Addition Historic District	Peru	District	2023
Jacobs, Terrell, Circus Winter Quarters	Peru	District	2012
Miami County Courthouse	Peru	Building	2008
Peru Courthouse Square Historic District	Peru	District	2018
Peru High School Historic District	Peru	District	2013
Peru Westside Historic District	Peru	District	2023
Shirk-Edwards House	Peru	Building	1995
Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters NHL	Peru	Building	1987
Westleigh Farms	Peru	Building	2003

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Miami was formed in 1832 (1832-04-02) from ADAMS New Purchase, Cass.

MIAMI created from ADAMS New Purchase, CASS, and Non-County Area 12 attached to CASS.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,048	16,851	24,083	28,344	28,668	27,926	28,201	38,000	39,820	36,082	35,962

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

49 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 49 of 49 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Barnhart Cemetery	40.57872	-85.98561
Bond Cemetery	40.63937	-85.93308
Bowman Cemetery	40.76377	-86.13938
Cassville Cemetery	40.56358	-86.12681
Chitick Cemetery	40.59114	-86.0899
Clayton Cemetery	40.72729	-85.95454
Climer Cemetery	40.6079	-86.0521
Courter Cemetery	40.84726	-86.05805
Crider Cemetery	40.69268	-86.02493
Deer Creek Cemetery	40.6052	-86.15546
Eel River Chapel Cemetery	40.80798	-86.15254
Enterprise Cemetery	40.94277	-85.98649
Fegley Cemetery	40.67208	-85.98783
Finley Cemetery	40.90643	-85.95332
Five Corners Cemetery	40.94537	-86.15951
Francis Godfroy Cemetery	40.75087	-85.99304
Friends Cemetery	40.60507	-85.92998
Gaerte Cemetery	40.99365	-85.98471
Garnand Cemetery	40.68502	-86.14271
Gerber Cemetery	40.57891	-85.98545
Herchberger Cemetery	40.58704	-85.98645
Hershberger Cemetery	40.57187	-86.01187
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery	40.90964	-86.11141
Kendall Cemetery	40.56449	-85.98832
Keyes Cemetery	40.68557	-85.99593
Koontz Cemetery	40.82536	-86.138
Leonda Cemetery	40.67649	-86.1032
Macedonia Cemetery	40.90092	-86.05653
Metzger Cemetery	40.70702	-86.153
Mount Hope Cemetery	40.75941	-86.08092
Mount Zion Cemetery	40.87551	-86.09358
Moyer Cemetery	40.95216	-85.94533
Musselman Cemetery	40.90449	-86.02732
New Hope Cemetery	40.708	-85.99811
North Grove Cemetery	40.61565	-85.9644
Old German Baptist Cemetery	40.82988	-86.11736
Park Lawn Cemetery	40.6142	-85.93832
Pipe Creek Cemetery	40.59414	-85.88272
Plainview Cemetery	40.95803	-86.13755
Ramer Cemetery	40.6549	-85.96997
Rankin Cemetery	40.66444	-86.06288
Salem Cemetery	40.69387	-86.06459
Sharpee Cemetery	40.72754	-86.09192
Shoemaker Cemetery	40.92743	-85.99173
Shrock Cemetery	40.79892	-86.02526
Springdale Cemetery	40.65986	-86.122
Tilden Cemetery	40.929	-86.06647
Westlawn Cemetery	40.86353	-86.08477
Yike Cemetery	40.90602	-86.0724

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Missisinewa	40.7506	-86.00832
Wagoner	40.9895	-86.149

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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