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Monroe County, Indiana

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
50historic places
—earliest paper
1818formed
139,718pop. 2020
30cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 50 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Bloomington, Ellettsville, Stinesville.

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 Monroe titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

24 of 50 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

50 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Abel, Elias, HouseBloomingtonBuilding1982
Blair-Dunning HouseBloomingtonBuilding1983
Bloomington City HallBloomingtonBuilding1989
Bloomington West Side Historic District (Additional Documentation)BloomingtonDistrict1997
Breezy Point Farm Historic DistrictGosportDistrict2018
Cantol Wax Company BuildingBloomingtonBuilding1990
Carter-Randall-Parker HouseBloomingtonBuilding2018
Cascades ParkBloomingtonDistrict2024
Coca-Cola Bottling Company PlantBloomingtonBuilding2000
Cochran-Helton-Lindley HouseBloomingtonBuilding1979
Courthouse Square Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict1990
Ellettsville Downtown Historic DistrictEllettsvilleDistrict2006
Epsilon II Archeological Site (12MO133)BloomingtonSite1986
Hinkle-Garton FarmsteadBloomingtonBuilding2007
Home Laundry CompanyBloomngtonBuilding2000
Honey Creek SchoolBloomingtonBuilding1978
Illinois Central Railroad Freight DepotBloomingtonBuilding1983
Johnson's CreameryBloomingtonBuilding1996
Kappa V Archeological Site (12MO301)BloomingtonSite1986
Koontz, John F. and Malissa, HouseBloomingtonBuilding2014
Legg HouseBloomingtonBuilding2001
Maple Grove Road Rural Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict1998
Matthews Stone Company Historic DistrictEllettsvilleDistrict2013
Mayfield, Leroy, HouseBloomingtonBuilding1994
McDoel Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict2021
Milisen, Dr. Robert L. and Ellen, HouseBloomingtonBuilding2021
Millen HouseBloomingtonBuilding2004
Millen-Chase-McCalla HouseBloomingtonBuilding2014
Mitchell, Joseph, HouseSmithvilleBuilding1986
Monroe Carnegie LibraryBloomingtonBuilding1978
Monroe County CourthouseBloomingtonBuilding1976
Morgan HouseBloomingtonBuilding1983
Nichols, J.L., House and StudioBloomingtonBuilding1984
North Washington Street Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict1991
Old Crescent, TheBloomingtonBuilding1980
Princess TheatreBloomingtonBuilding1983
Prospect Hill Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict1991
Second Baptist ChurchBloomingtonBuilding1995
Seminary Square ParkBloomingtonSite1977
Steele Dunning Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict2000
Stinesville Commercial Historic DistrictStinesvilleDistrict1995
Stinesville Historic DistrictStinesvilleDistrict2023
Stipp-Bender FarmClear CreekBuilding2023
Stout, Daniel, HouseBloomingtonBuilding1973
Tate-Tatum FarmSandersDistrict2020
University Courts Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict2007
Vinegar Hill Historic DistrictBloomingtonDistrict2005
Wicks BuildingBloomingtonBuilding1983
Woolery Stone CompanyBloomingtonSite2002
Wylie, Andrew, HouseBloomingtonBuilding1977

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Monroe was formed in 1818 (1818-04-10) from Orange.

MONROE created from ORANGE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

140k71k2,6791820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
2,67910,14312,84715,87520,87324,51936,53450,08059,22598,785120,563139,718

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

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

Cemeteries — 30 of 30 listed
NameLatLon
Burch Cemetery39.06683-86.65463
Burgoon Church Cemetery39.05459-86.40133
Chambers Cemetery39.02337-86.53249
Clear Creek Cemetery39.10643-86.53821
Clover Hill Cemetery39.01582-86.54739
Coffey Cemetery39.21481-86.67305
Collier Cemetery39.29873-86.5364
Dowell Cemetery39.24259-86.68293
Elliott Cemetery39.29784-86.59759
Farley Cemetery38.99474-86.5877
Friendship Cemetery39.12232-86.39765
Graves Cemetery38.99234-86.65898
Hanson Cemetery38.99563-86.50203
Harmony Cemetery39.10587-86.6342
Hillenburg Cemetery38.99332-86.38679
Keller Cemetery39.09282-86.67277
King Cemetery39.33206-86.60752
Lucas Cemetery39.07452-86.49842
Mitchell Cemetery38.99376-86.35961
Mount Carmel Cemetery39.2966-86.67029
Mount Salem Cemetery39.07868-86.5403
Rose Hill Cemetery39.16554-86.54684
Sample Cemetery39.25735-86.51522
Shiloh Cemetery39.26222-86.4374
Stepp Cemetery39.31365-86.42999
Taylor Cemetery39.3356-86.39166
Todd Cemetery39.01392-86.37783
Valhalla Memorial Gardens39.16954-86.55917
Van Buskirk Cemetery39.33341-86.64936
Whitehall Cemetery39.17083-86.68036

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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